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Running coding agents without approval prompts is a normalization-of-deviance risk: the fact that it has not caused a disaster yet is itself the problem.

Drawn from what Simon Willison said

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    Simon Willison 31 Dec 2025

    I run in YOLO mode all the time, despite being deeply aware of the risks involved. It hasn’t burned me yet... ... and that’s the problem.

    2025: The year in LLMssimonwillison.net

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