Granting Codex or Claude sysadmin access is powerful and dangerous
RealGeneKim · x · 2026-10-28
CTOAdvisor reminds devs that giving coding assistants like Codex and Claude system-administrator access to your local machine is a powerful productivity hack but dangerous — it can explain exactly why it deleted all your data. Gene Kim amplified the warning.
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