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What would you actually trust an agent to do on your computer while you're away?

I've been building an app (full disclosure, I'm the builder) that lets me text my Mac from my iPhone and have an agent operate the real apps on it: find a file, fill in a doc, move things around. The hard part hasn't been capability, it's trust. What I ended up with: reading, searching and drafting…

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  1. 2026-10-16 08:39 · r/AI_Agents
    What would you actually trust an agent to do on your computer while you're away?

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