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Claude Code is My Computer | Peter Steinberger

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TL;DR: I run Claude Code in no-prompt mode; it saves me an hour a day and hasn’t broken my Mac in two months. The $200/month Max plan pays for itself. For the past two months, I’ve been living dangerously. I launch Claude Code (released in late February) with --dangerously-skip-permissions, the flag that bypasses all permission prompts. According to Anthropic’s docs, this is meant “only for Docker containers with no internet”, yet it runs perfectly on regular macOS. Yes, a rogue prompt could theoretically nuke my system. That’s why I keep hourly Arq snapshots (plus a SuperDuper! clone), but after two months I’ve had zero incidents. When I first installed Claude Code, I thought I was getting a smarter command line for coding tasks. What I actually got was a universal computer interface that happens to run in text. The mental shift took a few weeks, but once it clicked, I realized Claude can literally do anything I ask on my computer. The breakthrough moment came when I was migrating to

TL;DR : I run Claude Code in no-prompt mode; it saves me an hour a day and hasn’t broken my Mac in two months. The $200/month Max plan pays for itself. For the past two months, I’ve been living dangerously. I launch Claude Code ( released in late February ) with --dangerously-skip-permissions , the flag that bypasses all permission prompts. According to Anthropic’s docs , this is meant “only for Docker containers with no internet”, yet it runs perfectly on regular macOS. Yes, a rogue prompt could theoretically nuke my system. That’s why I keep hourly Arq snapshots (plus a SuperDuper! clone), b

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