autonomy
9 posts — newest first.
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The Evidence an AI Operator Owes You Before It Acts
A tool-call log answers none of the eight questions an agent incident raises. A decision-time evidence record answers all eight, before the action runs.
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Your Agent's Safety Argument Has an Expiry Date. Write Down the Defeaters.
An assurance case says why an agent may act unattended. Defeaters say when that stops holding. Wire them to live state and authority drops on its own.
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Shadow Mode Isn't Evidence Until You Score It
In a seeded simulation, the agent with 95% concordance made 17 harmful high-severity proposals; the one with 88% made none. Score shadow mode properly.
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The 47th approval click is the bug
Human-in-the-loop is a real control until volume turns it into a reflex. How approval fatigue converts oversight into a rubber stamp — and the fix.
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Why your AI agent should not be allowed to act yet
Reading is reversible. Acting is not. Five things that must exist before an agent gets a write path — and the honest reason advisory-forever is also a failure.
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Google just published the reference architecture for agentic SRE
Google SRE splits autonomous incident response into reasoning, actuation, and evaluation. The split is the lesson — here's what to copy at normal scale.
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Autonomy is a budget, not a toggle: error budgets for AI operators
SRE solved runaway release risk with error budgets. The same mechanism governs AI agents: authority per action class, demoted fast, promoted slow.
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The reliability gap: a framework for trusting autonomous SRE agents
An autonomous airline agent rebooked 1,247 passengers wrong in one weather event. Trusting agents is a reliability problem — here's how to measure it.
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What is an AI agent? A primer for cloud engineers
A primer on AI agents — the perceive-reason-act loop, what separates an agent from a one-shot LLM call, and the classical agent types SREs now operate.