The auto industry grades self-driving in six levels. Roy Libman's essay does the same for AI agents...
Roy Libman maps Kubernetes AI agents on a 0-5 autonomy scale using the "3am test" to separate L3 (approval) from L4 (morning report). Autonomy binds to verb-environment pairs; guardrails must live in code, not prompts—reshaping production AI+Kubernetes governance.
The auto industry grades self-driving in six levels. Roy Libman's essay does the same for AI agents operating Kubernetes, and compresses the whole argument into one boundary: does the agent wait for your approval, or tell you at 9am?
The ladder:
L0 Manual: you do everything
L1 Explain: the agent summarizes, you act
L2 Propose: it suggests a concrete fix
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