AI Coding Agents Need Guardrails, Not More Trust
The failure is social before it is technical The pattern repeats across teams. Someone turns on an agent, watches it work, and then one day the read-only dropdown is gone, or the agent keeps editing while they are still reviewing the first diff. An hour later the branch has forty changed files, half of them unrelated, and nobody can say why src/legacy/ was touched. The complaint that follows is always the same shape: I no longer know this code, or how it works. ...