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Even claude Code does it.

Be typing a prompt and get 1) Do Action 2) Always Do Action 3) Don't Do Action

But if, like me, one looks at the keyboard while typing, you might not notice and be typing away and it has stolen your focus. Worse it used to default to 1) when you pressed enter and so you might have agreed to anything.

DO NOT STEAL FOCUS.



Oh man! Focus stealing is the worst! Bitwarden used to do this while I was typing my master password, stealing focus in the middle of what I'm typing to ask if I want to interrupt what I'm trying to accomplish to get their next minor upgrade. Which, of course typing my password very quickly I often hit enter at that moment, forcing me down an upgrade path. Beside the point of having my typing part of my password into a context it wasn't meant for. I think they've fixed it though.


Why would you mindlessly type away when you already know ahead of time, that they might be doing something tricky?


because the previous 30 times it didn't do it


Then it clearly it is an issue of overconfidence.

Since you can’t reliably catch 100% of tricks 100% of the time, continuing to do so is effectively guaranteering yourself to be tripped up in that 1 out of 100 times.




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