Bit of a wider discussion, but how do you all feel about the fact that you're letting a program use your computer to do whatever it wants without you knowing? I know right now LLMs aren't overly capable, but if you'd apply this same mindset to an AGI, you'd probably very quickly have some paperclip-maximizing issues where it starts hacking into other systems or similar. It's sort of akin to running experiments on con…
Programs can’t want things, it’s no different than running any other program as your user
Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
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Re: Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
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What is the advantage of using VMware Workstation Pro for this as opposed to using WSL2?
I think it has default access to your c drive via a mount, for one. You could add layers/sandboxes, but it’s not isolated.
Re: Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
#224Once approval fatigue and ongoing permission management kicks in, the temptation is strong to run `--dangerously-skip-permissions`. I think that's what we all want - run agents in a locked-down sandbox where the blast radius of mistakes and/or prompt injection attacks is minimal/acceptable. I started running Claude Code in a devcontainer with limited file access (repo only) and limited outbound network access (allowl…
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#225On a pro plan. Use opus 4.5 with thinking enabled. I find that two sessions eats through my entire five-hour "session limit", so no need for parallelization because I've consumed my tokens before I can even blink. I see the power and am considering Max but 5x cost is difficult to swallow. Just doing this for a lark, not professionally.
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For Windows a quick win is to install VMware Workstation Pro (which is free) and install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS as a VM. Broadcom bought VMware then released Workstation Pro for free and I don't think they kept the download link but you can get from TechPowerUp: https://www.techpowerup.com/download/vmware-workstation-pro/ You can then let LLMs on YOLO mode inside it.
Windows has the WSL for native Linux vms, these days (and also the past ~decade)
Meanwhile a VM isolates by default.
Re: Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
#227I have been running two or three Claude’s bare metal with dangerously skip permissions all day every day for two months now. It’s absolutely liberating.
Until it decides to delete your home directory: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pgxckk/claude_cl...
Re: Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the advantage of using VMware Workstation Pro for this as opposed to using WSL2?
I think it has default access to your c drive via a mount, for one. You could add layers/sandboxes, but it’s not isolated.