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The hardest question in enterprise AI isn't "can we build agents?" — it's "how do we let them act on our behalf without losing the company?" In Part 2 of our conversation with John Willis, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, James gets concrete about what agent guardrails actually look like in regulated environments: delegated authority, read/write/execute permissions, kill switches, and the Andon Cord for AI. Twenty-one minutes for engineering leaders who've been told to "go faster on AI" without a plan for what happens when an agent misbehaves.
By CallibrityThe hardest question in enterprise AI isn't "can we build agents?" — it's "how do we let them act on our behalf without losing the company?" In Part 2 of our conversation with John Willis, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, James gets concrete about what agent guardrails actually look like in regulated environments: delegated authority, read/write/execute permissions, kill switches, and the Andon Cord for AI. Twenty-one minutes for engineering leaders who've been told to "go faster on AI" without a plan for what happens when an agent misbehaves.