Yes
I've been running it for months in auto mode, heavily, getting it to do sysadmin tasks via SSH across multiple servers for both myself and a client, and there's not even been a whiff of anything dumb/catastrophic
AussieWog93 on Hacker News
In the thread “Claude Code: Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode”
Helped: Model trained to avoid destructive actions and enforce security hygiene.
… Their newer models are heavily trained out of the "whoopsie doopsie I deleted prod, and all backups too" behaviour from last year. I've been running it for months in auto mode, heavily, getting it to do sysadmin tasks via SSH across multiple servers for both myself and a client, and there's not even been a whiff of anything dumb/catastrophic -quite the opposite, in fact. I'd even say it's more careful than a lot of humans. …