> Somehow, we've all just accepted that it's totally normal to install tools from random strangers

This has been the modus operandi since windows xp days where we in all innocence installed random cd-ripping software and bonzi buddies, with full access to the rest of the computer.

It’s hard to argue against convenience. People will always do what’s easy even if less secure. The bigger lesson is why we still haven’t learned to sandbox sandbox sandbox. Here it seems like AI just did a full factory reset on every best practice know to man.