If you don't trust the coding agent, why trust the agent reviewing it?
thomasahle · x · 2026-09-15
- Aaroth questions the "auto-approve" feature in Codex and Claude Code: it skips permission prompts while creating a false sense of safety, premised on trusting an agent you may not trust in the first place.
- thomasahle responds that this is essentially the Generator-Verifier gap: the reviewer is also model-driven, so it offers no independent source of trust.
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