Hmmmm. OK. So yesterday I was accepting all these prompts in the manual mode for a solid hour, then I switched to Auto. Side project, nothing critical (creating ComfyUI workflows with CC and Opus). Walked away from the puter, got notified it was done. It did a good job, and by sheer luck it didn't delete a database or format my drive. But I felt a bit uneasy. Can we trust them now? I don't think I'd switch to Auto for a professional project. Not a chance. But for side projects? Yeah maybe - and only once I'd have validated whatever plan mode had come up with. Setting Auto as default? That's not cool. I'd set Plan mode as default.

Had a conversation with a friend who's struggling with code, and recently got into AI tools. The one thing that kept him from using Claude Code? Auto mode. My friend was convinced it didn't ask permission before touching his codebase by default.

Anthropic: careful. We the people trust Claude Code more than some other harness precisely because it asks you before doing anything. If you go full auto, there will be collateral damage. And yeah, I know, you can roll back. But some newcomers aren't familiar with that kind of stuff. Don't do it bro. Let us switch to Auto when we feel safe.

my opinion: "trust" is an interesting word to use for a piece of closed source probabilistic software that changes daily (sometimes multiple times), whose lead dev reports they rewrite something like 90% ("almost all", I believe, from recent interview) of the codebase after every new model release

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