alt Hacker NewsGetting agents used to using `--force` to bypass prompts seems like a bad idea. `--force` is for when the action failed (or would fail) for some reason and you want it to definitely happen this time.
I think `--yes` or `--yes-do-the-dangerous-thing` is leagues better.
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dimes • yesterday at 10:31 PM
CLIs should check isatty and, if it returns false, disable any interactive functionality because it won’t work.
ihsw • yesterday at 7:29 PM
`--non-interactive` has precedent too.
hajekt2 • yesterday at 8:00 PM
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It also in the case of an LLM can bias it towards using that sort of flag more commonly, which is less than ideal when it then uses a more ordinary Unix command that uses that to mean something dangerous.