While experimenting with autonomous agents recently, I keep running into a pattern that feels oddly familiar from distributed systems history. A lot of current discussion around agent reliability focuses on: better prompting model alignment sandboxed …

Something I kept running into while experimenting with autonomous agents is that most AI safety discussions focus on the wrong layer. A lot of the conversation today revolves around: • prompt alignment • jailbreaks • output filtering • sandboxing Those…

Most discussions about AI agents focus on planning, memory, or tool use. But many failures actually happen one step later: when the agent executes real actions. Typical problems we've seen: runaway API usage repeated side effects from retries recur…