In a study at night, a person calmly checks a bunch of glowing keys, next to a friendly AI assistant and a faintly glowing home server

When AI Can Do It All, I Double-Check My Keys at Home

Lately I’ve been relying more and more on Claude Code to manage my digital life. From organizing my Obsidian notes to maintaining a bunch of self-hosted services at home (OpenWrt router, AdGuard Home, Synology NAS, Oracle cloud instance, Home Assistant), down to the various automations running themselves in the middle of the night, I hand almost everything over to it. He can do more and more, and I seriously thought about something the other day that I hadn’t thought through before: I’ve given an AI assistant that can read files on my computer, execute commands, and connect to the internet such vast permissions. If something goes wrong one day, how wrong could it go? ...

June 28, 2026 · 7 min · 1281 words · 陳柏威 Po-Wei Chen