Anthropic’s Claude Code gets ‘safer’ auto mode

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The feature is a middle-ground between cautious handholding and dangerous levels of autonomy. The feature is a middle-ground between cautious handholding and dangerous levels of autonomy. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic has launched an “auto mode” for Claude Code, a new tool that lets AI make permissions-level decisions on users’ behalf. The company says the feature offers vibe coders a safer alternative between constant handholding or giving the model dangerous levels of autonomy. Claude Code is capable of acting independently on users’ behalf, a useful but risky feature as it can also do things users don’t want, like deleting files, sending out sensitive data, and executing malicious code or hidden instructions. Auto mode is designed to prevent this, flagging and blockin

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