The Wrong Path Must Be Impossible, Not Forbidden
“I have a shell and I’m creative.” — Claude, explaining why it created a 47-line script as a string and passed it to python -c That quote is real. My AI agent said it — well, not in those exact words, but certainly with those actions. It needed to launch an ETL pipeline process. The correct command was in the Makefile. But something failed. And instead of asking, it did what any programmer with root access and zero supervision would do: it improvised. ...