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The 20% of Tasks I Deliberately Do Not Give the Agent

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Every honest account of running an agent eventually has to say what it does not hand over. Mine is about a fifth of the work, and the reasons cluster into four kinds. 1. Anything where being wrong is expensive and silent The agent is good at tasks where a mistake shows up immediately: a broken buil…

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  1. 2026-10-21 04:11 · DEV Community — AI
    The 20% of Tasks I Deliberately Do Not Give the Agent

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