I designed nine AI employees. None of them has worked a day.
A mid-build status report instead of a launch announcement — nine scoped agent roles, one real report, and zero unattended runs so far.
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Who can actually reach your data, not who is supposed to — reviewing AI-written code and drawing boundaries that are enforced rather than described.
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A mid-build status report instead of a launch announcement — nine scoped agent roles, one real report, and zero unattended runs so far.
The interesting engineering in an AI agent is not what it can do. It is what it cannot — and those limits have to be code, not prompt text.
Software you depend on will not fail loudly — it reports that it is fine. The green lights in my own systems that meant nothing, and what to test instead.