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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
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Re: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
#32Their findings about auto mode catching more dangerous commands, and most permission requests being accepted without scrutiny is interesting. I can totally see how that happens.
On the other hand, soooo many of the tool uses it asks permission for are custom commands to replace functionality I should be able to trust once instead. e.g. instead of having a trustable Find tool, or using its already-trusted Read tool, it often will run `find` or `grep` or `cat` with a series of pipes and substitutions or `-exec` args, requiring me to give permission every time for basic, safe operations.
The (increasingly active) conspiracy theorist inside of me says it's precisely designed to do that, to give me "permission fatigue", so I turn on auto mode and give myself over to the machine spirit :)
Re: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I have been using Codex with auto-approve mode for a couple months and haven't had a single incident I've been running both in yolo mode and haven't had a single incident. --- None of this is really about figuring out how to protect people's drives, in my opinion. The real issue is a deep session where Ada is using Claude Code to get a refund and at some point the system "exploits" the merchant's api without any ma…
> I've been running both in yolo mode and haven't had a single incident. How do you know for sure?
Fair, I don't. The same is still true with an LLM as a judge in the loop
Re: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
#34I've been running Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions in a Docker container for the last month or so, allowing me to get up and stretch my legs while it does its thing. I definitely wouldn't want to run it unsandboxed.
There's actually a setting.json key to not have to put the option
Re: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
#35it's a good default because you really do get prompted incessantly without it. and since plenty of people are going to be using auto mode anyway, might as well make it as widely-used as possible so that you can focus on making auto mode safe.
> making auto mode safe
They literally can’t. Terrible default.
Re: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
#36"We spent the last several months testing whether auto mode is as safe or safer than an average user clicking through prompts." Yeah, might make sense from their perspective, but no thank you. I also do click through at times without reading everything, but I like to stay in control, learn about the new code and change direction if it goes off track. This would just burn more tokens because I have to throw away much…
The default is set for the marginal new user, which at this point is probably not someone like you (who benefits a lot from manual mode) -- it's someone who's more "code-naive" and might get anxious about approving random bash script commands they don't recognize. Safely getting the user from prompt --> first vibe-coded app is the "user journey" now, and since auto mode seems pretty good at not letting Claude rm -rf'…
> it's someone who's more "code-naive" and might get anxious about approving random bash script commands they don't recognize.
Maybe they should trust their instinct and not mess with things they don’t care to understand
Re: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
#37"We spent the last several months testing whether auto mode is as safe or safer than an average user clicking through prompts." Yeah, might make sense from their perspective, but no thank you. I also do click through at times without reading everything, but I like to stay in control, learn about the new code and change direction if it goes off track. This would just burn more tokens because I have to throw away much…
The default is set for the marginal new user, which at this point is probably not someone like you (who benefits a lot from manual mode) -- it's someone who's more "code-naive" and might get anxious about approving random bash script commands they don't recognize. Safely getting the user from prompt --> first vibe-coded app is the "user journey" now, and since auto mode seems pretty good at not letting Claude rm -rf'…
I am actually curious, how much non programmers use claude now. I know just one and she really does not know much about computers, I suppose their numbers will grow (but I doubt most get much value out of it).
Re: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
#38I've been running Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions in a Docker container for the last month or so, allowing me to get up and stretch my legs while it does its thing. I definitely wouldn't want to run it unsandboxed.
I'm using Docker Sandboxes with a custom Kit. The cli is nice and the TUI is also good. https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/
Re: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
#39Am I the only person reading the statistics in this announcement from Anthropic and the associated blog commentary and trying to work out how they possibly couldn't imply that a significant number of dangerous commands are likely to be attempted every day these tools are in use and neither manual human review nor the auto classifier provided by Claude is anywhere near reliable in preventing them?
A lot of the discussion about these long sessions where agents are left to operate autonomously feels like listening to the increasingly drunk guy at the bar who says "I ran IT at that Fortune 100 place for a decade and we never had a single problem using a short but loose rule set for the firewall until last week someone destroyed our entire business in 27 minutes".
Re: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
#40Their findings about auto mode catching more dangerous commands, and most permission requests being accepted without scrutiny is interesting. I can totally see how that happens. On the other hand, soooo many of the tool uses it asks permission for are custom commands to replace functionality I should be able to trust once instead. e.g. instead of having a trustable Find tool, or using its already-trusted Read tool, i…
Not just that, the commands also have often slight variations in each new session. They still do the same, but the variations are enough so it isn't matched by the allowlist any more.