The best thing we ever added to our agent wasn't a capability. It was an undo button

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Summary

The author argues that adding an undo button—not new capabilities—unlocked experimentation with their AI agent, suggesting agent design is really about reducing the cost of reverting changes.

For a long time, killing a misbehaving intent meant deleting the node, dragging all its reconnections and dependencies with it. One wrong move and you're rebuilding from scratch. So everyone quietly stopped touching the agent, which is insane for a thing that's supposed to be iterated on daily. We had a system nobody dared to change. The day pausing an intent became reversible instead of destructive, behavior flipped overnight. A/B tests, intents pre-loaded and left off for a future campaign, isolating a misfire without tearing down the flow. Zero new capability. We just made "undo" cheap, and suddenly people experimented. I'm now half-convinced that most agent design is secretly about the cost of undoing things, not the cost of doing them. Curious if anyone disagrees: what part of your agent are you scared to touch right now, and is it because it's hard to change or because it's hard to change back?
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