AI agents have grown significantly in capability and adoption since generative AI went mainstream in late 2022. In Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey, 84% of developers said they use or plan to use AI tools in their workflow, up from 76% a year earlier. As these tools shift from suggesting code to writing files and running commands autonomously, a practical question emerges: How much should an agent be allowed to do without stopping to ask? Developers call the extreme end of this spectrum YOLO mode. Understanding YOLO mode before enabling it is important, but the main risk is often...