Apple will update Macs to protect users from AI agents with full disk access

Good change.

• It helps the less tech savvy users,
• It actually forces developers to write their app properly.

Software should not operate at a privileged level “just in case”, but rather have a well-defined functional boundary.

It’s not clear exactly what Apple is going to impose here. In principle, trying to ensure users understand the implications of a permission is good. In practice, Apple is famous for keeping users from making decisions they might reasonably want to make on phones, and it’s starting to creep into the Mac; installing an app Apple hasn’t signed requires the command line, for example.

Apple also has a history of requiring excessively scary permission requests for things that Apple apps do without prompting. They abuse the permission system to foster a sense that Apple products are safe and any competitor is dangerous.