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Economics & tradeoffsThe Agent Isn't Expensive. Your Task Selection Is.Every agent call carries a fixed overhead cost — and for tasks below a certain threshold, that cost eats your savings whole.Economics & tradeoffsThe First Question Isn't How to Prompt It — It's Whether This Should Go to an Agent at AllThe whole habit assumes you've already picked the agent. There's a step before that: pick the right tool, out of four How you changeWatch Before You Delegate — Even After Two YearsThe same agent behaves differently across domains. And when you enter a new one, even experienced operators need an observation round first.Autonomy — how far to let goAutonomy is not an on/off switch — it is a dialThe right question is not 'can I trust it?' It is 'for this task, at this step, with these consequences — where does the gate go?'Autonomy — how far to let goAutonomy doesn't break at random — it breaks in three named waysWhen an agent runs on its own and comes back wrong, blaming the agent is the easy move. But almost every time, the fault is in how you set up the autonomy — and it repeats in three familiar shapes.Autonomy — how far to let goYou don't choose between babysitting and looking away — put a gate inside the runThe 'approve every step' vs. 'let it run to the end' binary is a false choice. The third way: let it run on its own, but place one gate right at the point of no return.Autonomy — how far to let goThe more you let it run alone, the more you have to say — not lessIntuition says an autonomous task needs less explaining — just turn it loose and let it handle things. That is backwards. A supervised task has a mid-course correction to catch a bad assumption. An unsupervised task has none — every gap you leave, the agent fills with a guess.Start hereLosing the midnight sale isn't about being short-staffed — it's that no one replied in timeThere's something that doesn't sleep — but 'let it reply to customers' and 'hire more people' are two very different things Start hereHanding it off then watching every line — that's not automation, it's manual work in a new costumeNot daring to look away means you haven't placed a checkpoint — and the right checkpoint is what lets you let go Agent skillsRun to the gate, then stop — not step-by-stepA prompt that lets the agent run on its own but stop at the few places worth stopping — so you can let go without losing control.Security & trustWhen the agent has the keys, the question stops being 'is it correct'Give an agent access to a real system and the worry shifts from 'did it do this right' to 'what can it reach, and what leaves your hands'Security & trustAn agent works with everything it can reach — so shrink what it can reachStaying safe isn't telling it 'don't touch that' — it's putting 'that' out of reach in the first place Security & trustThe action you can't undo: an agent types it as calmly as any otherDelete, send, deploy, pay — a few actions have no undo, and the agent can't feel where the point of no return sits

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