Security hot take: agents on employee devices shouldn't need stricter sandboxing than employees

max_paperclips · x · 2026-10-10

Zack Korman posts a deliberately provocative security take (self-described as the security equivalent of "stop reading the code"): he trusts AI agents more than most employees, and questions why agents running on employee devices need stricter sandboxing than the employees themselves. A direct challenge to the default assumption that agents require stronger isolation than their human operators.

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