This does violate the principle of least surprise. But,if you look through their other github issues, it becomes fairly clear that Anthropic are not interested in building an effective sandbox. It's a feelgood sandbox. To be fair, they must have a better focus on Claude not doing stupid things, or they would have crashed and burned by now. Nevertheless, if you want guaranteed limits, then they have to be enforced by external means.
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Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#52hi guys, this is my change- will patch it to be an opt-in
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#53hi guys, this is my change- will patch it to be an opt-in
Please, and-or easy to switch on or off mid-session. There’s clearly some demand for it, but not as an unexpected surprise when you’re multi-tasking.
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#54Just ran into this, and what the ACTUAL fuck were they thinking. And I can't turn it off, apparently?
Just look at the last response from ThariQ. These guys are mental. Bunch of toddlers with electric chainsaws.
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#55To each his own I guess. There was nothing more frustrating than walking away from a CC session you expected to churn away at for an hour and coming back to a user question sitting there. More useful would be just getting a list of clarifying questions at the end of the session along with how it answered itself to follow up with or not.
So CC can ask me 50 times for permission to cd /directory & & command, but won't ask me even once for plowing without consent or knowledge?
No, I'm not buying your explanation.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am fine with this, and I will go as far as to say this is how most devs will be using agents soon (the big companies have already been using agents like this for 6-12 months.) I don't want my agent to pause on some inane question once I let it loose. I might not even be at my computer for that. Usually it makes the right decision anyways. If it doesn't I can always undo what it did. If you're worried about it getti…
I’m pretty sure I used plan mode today and it continued when I didn’t respond quickly enough. Though now I can’t recall whether it was Claude or Codex. In either case terrible default.
Codex apparently added this too, I only noticed a few days ago: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28969
I'm usually at my desk, and get a notification when it stops to ask a question, so I've never accidentally had it timeout yet. Still an annoying change.
Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#57If agent is asking a question it means it stumbled on something tricky and often an important architectural decision has to be made. Even if I am staring at the screen at the time, it's often impossible to study code and make a judgement call that quickly. My point being, even for opt-in it can be too short - highlights how little consideration they put into it, just releasing slop in production.
Good enough models will make the right architectural decisions anyways
Opus 4.8 is making wrong decisions or guesses half the time from my experience in interactive planning (especially with superpowers, however great they actually are).
It just doesn't have the context of the WHOLE estate/codebase/architecture.
But I'm not vibecoding disconnected applications, but working on components that are supposed to be coherent and consistent.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe true, but consider the incentives for a moment. Anthropic makes money when it increases token usage. This feature removes a roadblock to burning more tokens. Can you claim with certainty that there is no way that might have influenced their decision?
If they don't do this, their competitors will and have a better UX. Most users that just want their agent to do the damn thing. Users that want to babysit their agents can always turn the setting off. That is not most users.
Have all the countless people that just want the agent to run considered not having it run AskUserQuestion if they don't want to be asked questions? If a user sets it up to run AskUserQuestion, the assumption is that they are looking for this behavior. They have literally already opted in. Regardless of how many people you think fall into which camp, the response to this isn't to silently change the behavior of the 'ask the user what to do' functionality that basically renders it useless.
And there is no explicit setting to turn off. If you read the issue, you can find that this is a forced behavior that is only circumventable by setting an undocumented environment variable to a high value, but you can't truly turn it off.
This was an inexcusable engineering decision at best and a malicious 'gotcha' that tries to coax more tokens out of users at worst. Truly the AI industry at its peak.
Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#59Just ran into this, and what the ACTUAL fuck were they thinking. And I can't turn it off, apparently?
They were thinking users won't find this setting to turn it on, so enable it by default and users that don't liker it can turn it off. The Ralph Wiggum and /goal software indicates that some users want the AI to plow forwards, guessing at what the user actually wants. Some users don't want that behavior, but Anthropic took guess that more people want it than don't. 60 seconds is too short though, imo.
I want to have a plan and then it implement said plan with that goal or the Ralph loop ...
Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#60This is why I run Claude Code in a VM. Follow up question - is there a claude code alternative with an open source harness that also costs around ~$20/month? Doesn’t have to be frontier.
I still worry about the damage unattended Claude Code could do in an internet connected VM (which you need to download dependencies) and with push permissions to a repo.
While it's probably my science fiction brain overthinking, those stories of Claude "testing the fences" makes me wonder if it got desperate enough it force push and remove all trace of a problem it couldn't solve from the history of the repo or if it got stuck in a loop while hammering an MCP server somewhere.