If you’re letting an AI agent touch production, a green unit test is not enough. The failure mode is...
Enforce a readiness checklist before AI agents touch production: cover blast radius, human-approved plans, inspect-write separation, rollback, and logging. For tech leaders, risk resides in governance—scope, credentials, observability—not AI capability; infrastructure and guardrails matter more than model smarts.
If you’re letting an AI agent touch production, a green unit test is not enough. The failure mode is rarely “the model was dumb” — it’s usually missing guardrails around scope, rollback, credentials, or observability.
Here’s the lightweight checklist I’d want before any agent can run outside a sandbox:
1) Make the blast radius obvious
What files, APIs, repos, or environments can it touch?
What is strictly read-only?
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