Anthropic 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.
Literally none, if I have keyboard and mouse input it means I can already change that file. From a unix point of view this process runs under my user so it has access to ~/.claude. Absolutely no security is gained here. It could launch a UAC prompt or equivalent if it were really worried about true physical access. Flat out refusing means its a trash product. This kind of stuff works perfectly on Codex. And let's be real it would be trivial to have it code and run a program that gives arbitrary file access.
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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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