Worried about agents wiping your Mac? Hourly Time Machine backups, says dev
HankYeomans · x · 2026-10-10
Responding to fears that AI agents could wipe out your Mac, the author argues it's a skills issue: hourly incremental Time Machine backups make the worst case losing just one hour of work. He named his backup volume Tardis. The takeaway: in the agent era, protecting your data is on you, not the agents.
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