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Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" by jbxntuehineoh on Saturday February 21, 2026 @08:38PM (#47107190)
isn't the value proposition "it can read your email and then automatically do things"? if it can't read your email and then can't actually automatically do things... what's the point?
Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" by thedougd on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:26PM (#47108144)
Setup automatic forwards. If I was to do this, I’d forward all the emails from my kids activities to its email.
Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" by billmalarky on Sunday February 22, 2026 @02:15PM (#47113748)
Yes -- definitely that's the value prop. But it's not binary all or nothing.

AI automation is about trust (honestly, same as human delegation).

You give it access to a little bit of data, just enough to do a basic useful thing or two, then you give it a bit of responsibility.

Then as you build confidence and trust, you give it a little more access, and allow it to take on a little more responsibility. Naturally, if it blows up in your face, you dial back access and responsibility quick.

As an analogy, folks drive their cars on the highway at 65-85+ MPH. Fatality rate goes up somewhat exponentially with speed and anything 60+ is considerably more deadly than ~30mph.

We're all so confident that a wheel won't randomly fall off because we've built so much trust with the quality of modern automobiles. But it does happen (I had a friend in high-school who's wheel popped off on a 45 mph road -- naturally he was going 50-55 IIRC).

In the early 1900s people would have thought you had a death wish to drive this fast. 25-30mph was normal then -- the automobiles at the time just weren't developed enough to be trusted at higher speeds.

My previous comment was about the fact that it is possible to build this sandboxing/bastion layer with live web accounts that allows for fine grained control over how much data you want to expose to the ai.

Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" by BeetleB on Sunday February 22, 2026 @03:14PM (#47114217)
The value proposition is it is an agent with (some) memory. There are lots of use cases that don't involve giving access to your personal stuff. Even a simple "Monitor these companies' career pages and notify me of an opening in my city" is useful.