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Safe Autonomy: Let Agents Act, but Not Blindly

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Full autonomy and full manual review are both wrong defaults for an ops agent — safe autonomy means letting it act freely on the low-risk 90% and gating the 10% that can actually break something. Autonomy is not binary "Should this agent be autonomous?" is the wrong question, because it's asking ab…

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  1. 2026-08-23 07:10 · DEV Community — AI
    Safe Autonomy: Let Agents Act, but Not Blindly

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