Gemini just output that for a complex refactor where I'm stripping out pure 
java logic from a GWT client module incrementally in a correct order so the app 
isn't broken at any stage: AI  can't do that, agents or whatever. Maybe in 5 
years, I have no idea

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  On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM, 'Tim Macpherson' via GWT 
Users<[email protected]> wrote:   Thanks, I heard the agents 
in cloud can be a security risk for proprietary code, but there are options to 
keep it private.  Thinking about it an agent would be overkill for my purposes, 
I just want something that doesn't have to be constantly corrected because it's 
forgotten my current stack. It can just about remember that I'm using Java GWT 
and D3 js, memory of a 4 year old

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  On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM, Jens<[email protected]> wrote:   
What is your goal? AI agents running locally are usually a security nightmare 
(data deletion, secret exfiltration via prompt injection) so you have two 
choices:
1.) babysit them all the time and review, understand and confirm any command 
the agent wants to execute. Otherwise it might delete your drive accidentally 
and feels really sorry about it or it reads an untrusted website with some 
prompt injection sections which causes the model to do something totally 
different. As a middleground you can allow read/search commands by default but 
still review everything else.

2.) Run the agent autonomously in a secure environment to protect your local 
data. This can be a local VM, a local docker container (e.g. use devcontainers 
for development in general or just run the agent in a container) or an OS 
provided sandbox mechanism. Then you make only the folders accessible to the 
environment (and thus the AI agent) which are required. If your agent should 
use the internet for research then you must control network requests (e.g. 
allowed domains).
Depending on the code size and the task complexity an AI agent is relatively 
slow as it does a lot of research in the code base first before implementing 
stuff. So if you work on a laptop it might be annoying to wait for the agent to 
complete. So the last option is using agents in the cloud which also solves the 
security issue for your local data as the cloud solutions usually must clone 
your repository from somewhere.
-- J.
Tim Macpherson schrieb am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2025 um 20:25:14 UTC+1:



 Following on from a recent post about AI, I  use basic chatgpt or Gemini. 
Should I be using AI agents such as Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, etc ?  My 
current AI usage is ok for specifics but awful at remembering things.
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