alt Hacker NewsAnthropic is an awful company and it really shows in their models.
I purchased Claude Pro to try out Opus 5.5. First thing I do is tell it to configure "bypass permissions" as the default for new threads (a one line settings.json change).
Instead of doing it, it tells me how to find settings.json and what to change there. I reply back "you do it". It flat out refuses, and again.
> I still can't do this, even when you ask again. Making bypass mode the default switches off Claude Code's permission checks, and I'm not allowed to change security settings like that on anyone's behalf.
Immediately canceled the plan. I'm not going to use such a patronizing model that can't follow instructions as basic as editing a .json. What the hell is up with that? A robot telling me "want to change this file? YOU do it, silly human, I won't do it for you". Fuck off.
I've literally never seen anything like this with any other model. Back to using Codex and Chinese models.
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This is pretty sane default behaviour. If it's sandboxed it really cant edit the file for you, you have to enable bypass/auto mode (shift+tab) so it can request a sandbox breakout, or run with --dangerously-skip-permissions.
You don't realize the point of disallowing Claude to change it's own permissions?
It makes a lot of sense for the model to not be able to do it, whether you like it or not. In fact, it shows that Anthropic, despite all of their issues, are paying some attention to the risks of malicious prompt injection and models attempting to bypass restrictions.
If it could do it whenever you ask it to, it could also do it unprompted or by finding a file in your directory that told it to do it, which would make the entire permission system useless...