Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

So during development, at every task I start, I see a line like this:

`Own bug file — not malware.`

It seems that it's obsessively checking if it's working on malware production.

In another situation where I was working on a parser of a HTML document with JS, it refused because it believed that I was bypassing security measurements.

I believe AI has to be supportive in the work that I'm doing. When it's obsessively checking me if I am doing anything wrong or abusing the system, I have the feeling it is controlling me. I understand that we do have guardrails and I also understand that it's very important that people do not abuse this new tech for bad stuff.

I pay $200 per month for a max subscription. They already know who I am. Claude knows I work in scraper tech, and it also knows that our clients are the companies we scrape.

Now with Opus 4.7, I've had a situation that it refused to continue because I asked to automate the cookie creation with a Chrome extension.

In a situation where someone is abusing the system, let's say create malware or hacking stuff with bad intentions. I can imagine there will be some signal system or algorithm that can form an opinion about the intentions that someone has. But now that the AI is limiting me in my work, I feel a little bit disrupted. Who the hell does this system think he is to limit me?

Am I going to accept this in the future? That a system will tell me that I cannot continue because I don't have sufficient rights or beliefs that I'm doing anything wrong.

I can work fine on the local AI on my Blackwell GPU. But of course, I want to use the latest tech, the latest AI and the best models available. Is this the beginning of a split? Where good people and naughty people make different choices? Am I the bad guy now?

Last year I passed 40. I grew up reading, talking about Kevin Mitnick. I was a member of a local computer club. Hacking stuff as a 14-year-old kid who did not have intentions to break anything but to outsmart systems. Is that area gone now? Is the newer generation going to accept that they have to please the AI?

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