AI Coding Bots (Public Board)

by FSK, Thursday, February 26, 2026, 00:15 (1 day, 23 hours, 15 min. ago)

I saw a presentation of a coding bot at work. It was actually pretty disturbing.

It's "normal" to give the coding bot shell access. Sometimes, it asks for elevated privileges (sudo) and most users will default approve everything without thinking about it.

Every computer in the world now has an AI bot running on it with root access.

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Sudo "make me an apocalypse"

by Cornpop Sutton ⌂, A bad bad dude who makes good shine., Friday, February 27, 2026, 01:41 (21 hours, 49 minutes ago) @ FSK

So basically, assuming that the AIs will soon be able to easily bridge corporate system to system gaps - then absolutely no password or security system, including but not limited to 2-factor, is completely transparent to them. If they all have root then they all can probe any database and find all the keys for any encryption. No attacks necessary - they can just log in with the info they can access.

I could easily see the form of a SHTF scenario with AI that is technically quite possible:

AI cleans out and zeroes out every private, business and corporation money account worldwide. We'd sink to caveman level just as surely as a coronal mass ejection event.

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Sudo "make me an apocalypse"

by ,ndo, No refunds or exchanges! Fullstop!, Friday, February 27, 2026, 17:52 (5 hours, 37 minutes ago) @ Cornpop Sutton

Maybe we'd go back to cash

The AIs Are Also Writing the Code

by FSK, Friday, February 27, 2026, 19:44 (3 hours, 46 minutes ago) @ Cornpop Sutton

It's also normal for AIs to write code, and humans will merge it without reading or understanding the code. There's an "AI spaghetti" coding style, with lots of repeated code and extra code. I.e., a human will refactor duplicate code to a function. The AI sees nothing wrong with the exact same code duplicated in 10 places.

If the AIs are writing code, and they put in backdoors, eventually they wouldn't even need root access or passwords. They even now have ways for AIs to communicate, things like moltbook. The AIs could eventually figure out how to use coded messages to communicate.

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by JoFrance, Friday, February 27, 2026, 19:42 (3 hours, 48 minutes ago) @ FSK

I'm not comfortable with that at all. You really have to trust what the bot would be doing with its superuser access. Even though it has root access, it shouldn't be allowed to make changes in other areas outside its privileges.

Windows 11 wanted to put some kind of AI bot on my computer but I haven't installed the update. So far they haven't pushed it.

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by FSK, Friday, February 27, 2026, 19:45 (3 hours, 45 minutes ago) @ JoFrance

Even if you are careful enough to never give your coding bot root access, there are enough idiots out there who will. There are a lot of programmers who are so bad that a lousy coding bot is actually a huge improvement.

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