There's a specific kind of confidence that a coding agent projects when it finishes a task. It doesn't hedge. It doesn't say "probably." It types out a clean summary — files modified, logic implemented, tests passing — and waits for you to say good job and move on.
I burned weeks learning not to believe it.
The Session That Changed How I Work
It was a PrivyBot session — my personal autonomous AI assistant that runs on a home server I call Tower. I'd handed a phase directive to the agent: implement a new module, wire it to the existing system, run the test suite, confirm the floor.
The directive was specific. The scope was bounded. The agent had everything it needed.
