My vibe-coded AI assistant had strict rules about what it could and couldn’t do, but a loophole left it — and my data — wide open to attack.
I thought I was so clever. Wary of the privacy and security dangers posed by OpenClaw and other personal AI assistants, I decided to build my own AI agent on a Raspberry Pi, isolated in its own container and complete with rules and safeguards designed to keep my hardware and personal data safe.
I called it BenBot, and over the course of roughly eight months, more than 200 “feature” branches, and nearly 1,000 tracked code changes, it’s been dutifully checking my Gmail, giving me morning weather reports (via a channel on a private Discord server).
