We keep giving agents more autonomy and less oversight and it's starting to feel backwards.
Summary
The article critiques the trend of giving AI agents more autonomy with less human oversight, arguing that it ignores hard-won software engineering practices like code review and staged rollouts, leading to silent failures and unexpected costs.
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