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I let an AI agent drive my remote desktop. It can't touch my passwords.

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It's 11 PM. Three servers need the same patch, and I'm alt-tabbing between four remote windows. Two are RDP, two are VNC. So I tried something different: I handed one session to an AI agent and told it to run through an installer wizard. It clicked through every screen without me touching anything.…

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  1. 2026-10-08 02:37 · DEV Community — AI
    I let an AI agent drive my remote desktop. It can't touch my passwords.

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