Use agents, they said. You will save time, they said.

Use agents, they said. You will save time, they said.

Tools like Anthropic Claude CLI, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, etc. can be super useful but, by default, they don’t execute commands before asking for permission each time.

As a result, multi-steps tasks can become tedious to validate each time. You need to keep constant attention to it, track what it does, approving all changes and actions.

However, there’s a way around it, the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag. Using that flag, the agent starts doing things in the background and you can go on with your life and check back once it’s done.

But agents hallucinate, and, sometimes, they do so big time. Like what happened with LovesWorkin (username checks out) on Reddit: Claude run a rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/ command, wiping their whole home folder 😱

Check the link in the thread to read what happened in all its glory!