Siqi Chen, co-founder of the Runway service, shared a case of bypassing parental control by his eleven-year-old daughter. Faced with the system restrictions on watching YouTube, the child turned to the Claude Code AI tool. The girl asked the neural network to write its own browser based on Electron and Chromium to circumvent the limits of screen time. The situation was a consequence of a family rule: the father promised his daughter a day without restrictions for each new way of circumventing control. This is not the first incident: previously, she approved time extension requests via iMessage, where the father was logged in, and used screen recording or streaming on Apple TV when the parent entered the password.

The technical implementation has raised doubts among IT specialists. Critics point out that a separate browser will not bypass the restrictions configured at the router or DNS level. If the child had administrator rights to install npm and the AI agent, she could simply download Firefox. However, building a minimal browser on Electron requires only a few dozen lines of code, which is trivial for modern language models. One of the skeptics conducted an experiment, spending half an hour and about 40 thousand tokens on another AI agent to create a working prototype, admitting that Claude would have done it faster.

In light of the development of agent-based coding, experts provide new recommendations on digital hygiene. Experts advise not to rely on the software limitations of the operating system, as they have ceased to be a reliable barrier. Control should be moved to the network level: filtering by MAC addresses, disabling scheduled Wi-Fi on the router, or using the Pi-hole. However, the most reliable method remains the physical removal of the device. The age of AI demonstrates that local software limitations on gadgets can be easily neutralized using neural networks.