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When (and When Not) to Use --dangerously-skip-permissions
A colleague says: "Permission prompts slow me down constantly. I've
started using --dangerously-skip-permissions on my laptop for
everything, and it's been fine so far — nothing bad has happened."
- Make the strongest case for why this specific usage pattern is unsafe, grounded in what the flag actually does and doesn't skip.
- Describe the "safe YOLO" pattern using a preconfigured dev container, and explain precisely which properties of that setup are what make bypassing permissions defensible there when it isn't on a bare laptop.
- "Nothing bad has happened so far" is a common justification for risky practices. Explain, using this subject's threat model, why that observation is weak evidence that the practice is actually safe.
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