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by marifjeren 380 days ago
Nothing to see here tbh.

It's a very silly title for "claude sometimes writes shell scripts to execute commands it has been instructed aren't otherwise accessible"

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We’ve reached a point where tools get hyped because they fail to follow instructions.
In fairness, Claude loves to find workarounds. Claude Code is constantly saying things like, “This streaming JSON problem looks tricky so let’s just wait until the JSON is complete to parse it.”

No, Claude. Do not do that!

Anything mundane made to sound scary is a signature Anthropic thing to do lol
omg, my ai agent did nil dereferencing, it seems it's trying to implement backdoor to my system so that it will crash my server.
Gotta love the alarmist culture that surrounds these circles.
The same hype as the PlayStation being too powerful and potentially could be used by random countries to make nuclear weapons with a cluster of those.
Lol and the Playstation was already in the public conscious as a product that a lot of people found easy to understand. With AI tools only being presented this way, I'm slowly becoming less surprised why the less informed public has a level of aversion about it.