What I will not automate
This is part 6 of the Agent production system series (boundaries, not “series over” — later posts dig into GitHub tokens and the landing floor). Previous: Claim safety. Constellation: Human approval, Eval gates, Orchestrator. A series about agents should spend real time on boundaries. Not because automation is bad — because production systems are defined by what they refuse. I will automate aggressively inside the funnel. I will not pretend every human act is a waste waiting for a model. The goal was never maximum automation. The goal is a system that moves work fast and still has a place for a human to say no. ...