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Re:First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general a... by qingcharles on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:21AM (#46643921)
There was a funny YouTube which came out immediately after the release where Claude rm -rf all dude's files o_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6C9nMvQsGU

YOLO? More like LOLOL

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Re:First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general a... by malka1986 on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:05AM (#46644528)
you have to be crazy to run claude in YOLO mode outside of a constrained environment such as a docker container
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Re:First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general a... by holbrad on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:57AM (#46644834)
There's an awful lot of people running these tools in YOLO mode.

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/the-normalization-...

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Re:First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general a... by ljm on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:10AM (#46646484)
The fact you could see in the video what was going on for several minutes before the guy noticed it…
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