alt Hacker NewsSaying the answer is auto mode almost feels insulting as a developer. Claude loves showing me the most obscure bash commands where it hides its edits to numerous files and runs who knows what that there's barely a time where I don't have to ask it to use edit mode and to show human-readable bash commands. Using Claude has become a fight in maintaining control over how my codebase works so that I'm not dependent on Claude to do literally anything.
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The entire approach is insane. Ideally Claude ran in a microvm locally with delegated auth or proxies to avoid it having greater access than granted.
Yeah I have a whole ongoing thread with Claude where I paste in screenshots of all the bash prompts auto mode is triggering asking me to allow them. After about two weeks of doing this and having it update its settings.json permissions or showing me which lines to update, its finally able to complete most (inherently safe, low risk) tasks without user intervention.
Or how it loves using ; to chain commands so that even if the first part fails to run it just moves on the execute the rest, wasting time and being potentially dangerous. I have caught so many of them myself and stopped tasks manually -- what is it doing when it's obvious tests already failed in the previous step?
Their "auto mode rules", meant as additional rules described in natural language to adjust auto mode because, doesn't even help. I have to add a PreToolUse hook to stop that.
> dependent on Claude to do literally anything.
That's a feature not a bug
Genuinely want to understand this better. Are you saying you would prefer that Claude used the Edit tool for file edits rather than using Bash (if so, I am curious why)? Or are you saying you don’t like the code Claude generates (if so, what model are you using what what kind of codebase do you work on)? Or did I misunderstand what you meant.