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0 pointssimonw5mo ago0 comments

Many people (myself included) run them in YOLO mode with approvals turned off, because it's massively more productive. And that's despite me understanding how unsafe that is more than most!

Even with approvals humans will fall victim to dialog fatigue, where they'll click approve on everything without reading it too closely.

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porksoda5mo ago

That is just nuts! Not in my dreams will claude yolo commands into my system.

What are we even talking about? I think life itself grants us the right to get high or pet wild animals or swim the atlantic or sudo rm-rf... Or yes-and-accept-edits at 3AM with a 50 hour uptime (yes guilty) but then we don't get to complain that it's dangerous. We surely were warned.

kid645mo ago

Anthropic's official recommendation is to only use YOLO mode in an airgapped container (see "Safe YOLO mode" here: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-pract...)

brookst5mo ago

Well sure, it’s like riding a motorcycle without a helmet: while it is true that motorcycles are dangerous, it’s hardly fair to characterize their danger based on the no-helmet risks.

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