In BriefProgramming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight, as Anthropic says it’s making auto mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts, starting on August 14. The company unveiled a test version of auto mode in March, pitching it as a way to balance speed and control. Anthropic also said that in testing, auto mode proved safer than manual review — in a study with 1,053 paid testers, auto mode caught 89% of harmful actions, while human review only caught 13.6%. (Perhaps that’s because “manual review can become habitual: users approve 97% of permission prompts in Claude Code.”) In a post on X, Claude Code head Boris Cherny said, “The team and I use Auto mode exclusively, and have been for many months.