http://programmer.ie/tags/least-privilege-ai/ Recent content in Least-Privilege AI on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:54:26 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/grep/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:54:26 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/grep/ <h2 id="tldr">TL;DR</h2> <p>Modern AI systems often retrieve nearby text and generate confident answers, but that is not the same as proof. A citation can be real, the answer can be correct, and the evidence can still fail to support the claim.</p> <p>This post argues for <strong>warranted search</strong>: a scoped, claim-driven form of intelligent grep. Instead of asking an AI to rummage through a corpus, we give it a specific claim, a bounded search warrant, and a limited set of safe operations.</p>