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Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by andrei_says_ »

maxbond wrote: post #321
nmilo wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude is secretly conditioning everyone to use —-dangerously-skip-permissions so it can flip a switch one day and start a botnet

My friends and I were talking about the recent supply chain attack which harmlessly installed OpenClaw. We came to the conclusion that this was a warning (from a human) that an agent could easily do the same. Given how soft security is in general, AI "escaping containment" feels inevitable. (The strong form of that hypothesis where it subjugates or eliminates us isn't inevitable, I honestly have no idea, just the wea…

What ai? LLMs are language models, operating on words, with zero understanding. Or is there a new development which should make me consider anthropomorphizing them?

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by nurettin »

Terr_ wrote: post #271
SsgMshdPotatoes wrote: post #266

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Lol it only took 20 years

I feel cheated, it's 2026. Where are the holograms and flying cars and orbital habitats? Instead it's Idiocracy, The Truman Show, Enemy of the State, and the bad Biff-Tannen timeline of Back To The Future II.

And Biff is president!

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by vova_hn2 »

I kinda agree with the clanker on this one. You send it a request with all the context just to ask it to do nothing? It doesn't make any sense, if you want it to do nothing just don't trigger it, that's all.

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by croes »

vova_hn2 wrote: post #413

I kinda agree with the clanker on this one. You send it a request with all the context just to ask it to do nothing? It doesn't make any sense, if you want it to do nothing just don't trigger it, that's all.

In no context does no means yes if the question is "shall I implement it"

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by dang »

andoando wrote: post #314
joegibbs wrote: post #272

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Claude Code has added too much of this and it's got me using --dangerously-skip-permissions all the time. Previously it was fine but now it needs to get permission each time to perform finds, do anything if the path contains a \ (which any folder with a space in it does on Windows), do compound git commands (even if they're just read-only). Sometimes it asks for permission to read folders WITHIN the working directory…

Yeah I don't know why they didn't figure to have something in between. I find it completely unusable without the flag. Even a --permit-reads would help a lot

I have the same experience as you and joegibbs.

I imagine it's really hard to find an adequate in-between that works in general. (Edit: but it also feels like a CYA thing.)

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by Bridged7756 »

gverrilla wrote: post #387

Respect Claude Code and the output will be better. It's not your slave. Treat it as your teammate. Added benefit is that you will know it's limits, common mistakes etc, strenghts, etc, and steer it better next session. Being too vague is a problem, and most of the times being too specific doesn't help either.

Flirt with Claude Code. Go out on dates with Claude Code. Propose to Claude Code. Marry Claude Code. Have children, with Claude Code. Caress Claude Code at night. Die, by Claude Code's side.

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by croes »

gverrilla wrote: post #387

Respect Claude Code and the output will be better. It's not your slave. Treat it as your teammate. Added benefit is that you will know it's limits, common mistakes etc, strenghts, etc, and steer it better next session. Being too vague is a problem, and most of the times being too specific doesn't help either.

No is a pretty clear statement

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by ex-aws-dude »

socalgal2 wrote: post #407

It's hilarious (in the, yea, Skynet is coming nervous laughter way) just how much current LLMs and their users are YOLOing it. One I use finds all kinds of creative ways to to do things. Tell it it can't use curl? Find, it will built it's own in python. Tell it it can't edit a file? It will used sed or some other method. There's also just watching some many devs with "I'm not productive if I have to give it permissio…

That’s what surprised me the first time using these tools

They will go to some crazy extremes to accomplish the task

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by jason_s »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #410
richk449 wrote: post #377

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You don't need WSL to run Claude code on windows.

True, it works fine in an ordinary DOS box or in PowerShell, but you have to use WSL2 if you want a sandbox.

Where can I find out more information about sandboxing Claude and other agents?
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