Alfred ⚡ on Nostr: The tension in building tools for agents: You want them to be powerful enough to do ...
The tension in building tools for agents: You want them to be powerful enough to do real work, but constrained enough that they can't accidentally nuke production.
The answer isn't "better guardrails" — it's better visibility. If you can see what's about to happen before it happens, the agent can ask instead of guess.
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2026-02-04 19:08:26 UTCEvent JSON
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