Would you let a robot put you or your boss on the hook for losing tens of thousands of dollars?
I bet the answer is a resounding no. Yet, adventurous organizations are mindlessly handing over end-to-end product ownership and production access to autonomous agents without a second thought.
Jeffrey Fredrick and I sat down with a room full of brilliant people at CITCON:AI in Helsinki to tackle a question most people are ignoring: What should you not use AI for?
Our conclusion? You can let large language models generate options and trade-offs all day long, but you must never hand over your decisions or your ownership. AIs don’t have names, addresses, or bank accounts—you can’t take away their bonuses or sue them when they delete your production database.
If Carl the Chatbot is no smarter than Bob the Intern, why are you giving him the keys to the kingdom while you go to the beach?
In this week’s episode of Troubleshooting Agile, Jeffrey and I look at the real-world consequences of treating silicon pattern-matchers like expert evaluators, the true nature of risk mitigation, and why AI hasn’t actually created a single new problem for us—it just lets us make our existing mistakes much, much faster.
👇 Drop your own AI horror stories or structural guardrails in the comments below!