[dcre]

I think it's too far to say you need YOLO mode — the author was correctly pointing to the "auto-accept all changes" setting. They should have just turned that on and then reviewed the changes in larger chunks. You don't have to let it go for half an hour and review the mess it cooked up — you can keep an eye on things and even manually make commits to break the work into logical pieces.

With auto-accept edits plus a decent allowlist for common commands you know are safe, the permission prompts you still get are much more tolerable. This does prevent you from using too many parallel agents at a time, since you do have to keep an eye on them, but I am skeptical of people using more than 3-5 anyway. Or at least, I'm sure there is work amenable to many agents but I don't think most software engineering is like that.

All that said, I am reaching the point where I'm ready to try running CC in a VM so I can go full YOLO.