Advice for Working with Agents in YOLO Mode

Until last November, I used assistant-style workflows, co-writing everything. Then at the beginning of this year, I started using agentic coding tools for small PR-style tasks, but I still reviewed every line and changed if necessary. Over the past few weeks, I experimented for the first time with developing with agentic coding without writing or reviewing any code, essentially running in fully autonomous mode without asking approvals, and see what happens. Here is what I have learned so far.