Everyone in here treats full autonomy as the finish line. I went the other way. The version I actually kept using is the one that stops and asks right before it touches Gmail or the CRM, per action, not one blanket yes at setup.
sounds like a downgrade, i know. but an agent that can send on its own is the exact thing i can't leave running while i'm heads down in a meeting. the one that pauses the second before it acts is the one i'll let near a live inbox, because the gate sits where the actual mistake would happen.
that sandbox-escape story near the top of the sub is basically my whole argument. the capability isn't the scary part, the unsupervised action is. i don't want a smarter agent, i want a boring one that checks with me first.
so the line i actually care about isn't how capable it is. it's whether approval lands at the task level or on each individual action right before it fires. where do you put it. written with ai
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