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Shipping with AIThe Most Expensive Bug Is the One That Keeps the Build GreenMake the agent read the blast radius before it touches anything shared Production in the wildIt's right twenty times, so you stop looking. The twenty-first bites.Trust drifts up with each success — which is exactly how it banks risk without you noticing How you changeNobody is born knowing how to manage an agent — here are the four stagesThe dangerous stage is not when you are new. It is when you already feel like you know what you are doing.How you changeThe Confidence Trap — Month Three Is When You're Most Likely to FallNot because you've gotten worse. Because you're just good enough to take on bigger work before you're wise enough to know where the edges are.How you changeWatch Before You Delegate — Even After Two YearsThe same agent behaves differently across domains. And when you enter a new one, even experienced operators need an observation round first.Autonomy — how far to let goAutonomy is not an on/off switch — it is a dialThe right question is not 'can I trust it?' It is 'for this task, at this step, with these consequences — where does the gate go?'Agent skillsMake It Argue Against Its Own PlanA prompt that pressure-tests an approach before you commit a single line to it.Agent skillsProbe with a small task before you trust it in a new domainA prompt that makes the agent do one small slice and show how it thinks — before you hand over the whole task in a field it hasn't proven itself in.Security & trustWhen the agent has the keys, the question stops being 'is it correct'Give an agent access to a real system and the worry shifts from 'did it do this right' to 'what can it reach, and what leaves your hands'Security & trustWhen the data gives orders: an agent struggles to tell what to read from what to obeyIt reads a web page, a file, a bug ticket — and a line buried inside can become a command it follows Security & trustThe action you can't undo: an agent types it as calmly as any otherDelete, send, deploy, pay — a few actions have no undo, and the agent can't feel where the point of no return sits Working as a teamWho owns what the agent wrote: 'the agent wrote it' is not an excuseWhen half the changes are agent-generated, accountability can't fall into a void — the person who hits merge puts their name on it Working as a teamOnboarding into the agent workflow: 'just use it freely' transfers no craftWhat you're good at is tacit knowledge — what to delegate, where to gate — so dropping a newcomer in empty-handed pushes them to one of two extremes: delegate blindly, or not dare to delegate

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