After 30 approval prompts, 'yes' to everything sent a broken release to his whole list
latent_lurker8587 · reddit · 2026-10-29
A developer shares a real 'approval fatigue' failure: while an agent helped ship a newsletter, it asked for approval at every step. Around the 30th prompt he was blindly hitting yes — and one of those yeses was 'send to the list' instead of 'send a test to myself,' so every subscriber got a release email pointing to a changelog page that didn't exist yet.
The core tension: per-command approvals quickly become noise nobody reads, but full access is risky. The post surveys four common trade-offs:
- An allowlist — only prompt on unseen commands
- Ask only when a command looks dangerous
- No prompts at all, but run the agent inside a container
- Read-only plan first, then approve the whole plan in one shot
The author asks which trade-off others prefer and whether skimming approvals has burned them too.
More from coding & agent
- Linear's Slack bot slammed as "GPT-3.5-level" — pick your team's AI by daily reliability, not leaderboards — sujingshen · 2026-10-29
- Claude Code taps Oxylabs via MCP to scrape bot-protected sites into clean JSON — mhdfaran · 2026-10-29
- opencode ships /goal command for coding agents — lyraxana · 2026-10-29
- Make0 Brain: an open-source MCP server for shared, versioned agent memory with 80ms retrieval — heysrb · 2026-10-29
- Discover API lets AI agents search social platforms in one call, with spend caps and semantic filtering — dooddyman · 2026-10-29
- Dev's code merged by AI agent with zero human intervention — iamsahaj_xyz · 2026-10-29