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And that is how easily we lose agency to AI. Suddenly even checking the commands that a technology (unavailable until 2-3 years ago) writes for us, is perceived as some huge burden...

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The problem is that it genuinely is. One of the appeals of AI is that you can focus on planning instead of actually doing running the commands yourself. If you're educated enough to be able to validate what the commands are doing (which you should be if you're trusting an AI in the first place), then if you have to individually approve pretty much everything the AI does you're not much faster than just doing it yourself. In my experience, not running in YOLO mode negates most advantages of agents in the first place.

AI is either an untrustworthy tool that sometimes wipes your computer for a chance at doing something faster than you would've been able to on your own, or it's no faster than just doing it yourself.

I approve every command myself, and no, it's still much faster than doing it myself.

>if you have to individually approve pretty much everything the AI does you're not much faster than just doing it yourself

This is extremely disconnected from reality...

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