#software-design
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Give the Agent a Smaller Keyring: Autonomy Should Be Designed Around Reversibility
The useful question is not whether an AI agent is autonomous. It is which actions it can take, which states it can alter and how cheaply a human can reverse the result.
Give the Agent a Reverse Gear Before Giving It More Authority
Useful agents do not need theatrical independence; they need bounded permissions, inspectable state, and cheap recovery from mistakes. Reversibility is the engineering property that turns uncertain model behavior into deployable software.