Whatever Just Let Me Build My Useless Garbage

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Whatever Just Let Me Build My Useless Garbage

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You just want to spin up a quick todo app for the 47th time, but some AI-powered dev tool is asking for permissions that would make the NSA blush. Full access to your filesystem? Sure. Screen recording 24/7? Why not. Your calendar, contacts, and "the whole fucking shebang"? Absolutely necessary for... improving your developer experience, apparently.

But here's the thing—you're so desperate to avoid actually configuring your environment manually that you'll just slam that "GRANTED AS FUCK" button without a second thought. Who cares if it can see your browser history of Stack Overflow tabs and that embarrassing Google search for "how to center a div"? You've got a half-baked side project to abandon in two weeks, and you need it NOW.

The modern developer's dilemma: trading your entire digital soul for the convenience of not reading documentation. Worth it? Probably not. Gonna do it anyway? Absolutely.

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