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<v Maximilian>So, Cursor is a quite powerful tool.</v>

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It's worth noting that it has its own set of settings,

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which you can tweak to your liking.

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You can access them from the "main menu,"

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"Cursor settings," "Cursor settings."

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And just as with GitHub Copilot and all these AI tools,

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those settings will change over time.

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You can tweak things like appearance here,

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but you can also control which features are available

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or will be used by Cursor.

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And again, those will change over time.

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There is one specific feature I want to highlight though,

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and that's the "auto-run mode,"

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which was previously, in earlier versions,

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also called YOLO mode, for "you only live once."

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This mode, if enabled, allows Cursor in Agent mode

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to automatically execute commands it wants to execute.

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So it will not ask you first

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as it will by default with this disabled.

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With this enabled, as you also see in this disclaimer here,

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Cursor will auto-execute commands

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and therefore of course it could potentially

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execute bad commands and erase your hard drive

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or delete important files, which are then gone forever.

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You can control that certain commands like the remove

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command are denied so that you still have some control

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even in this auto run mode.

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So this is a mode you might want to enable to move

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even faster because with it enabled, you won't have to check

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and confirm all the commands it wants to run.

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But of course you should be aware of the risks associated

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with this mode, which is why I am typically not using it.

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It is nonetheless a mode worth knowing

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and a mode you might want to explore for your projects.