Root Access: Please Stop Giving AI Agents the Keys to Everything

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I need to say the uncomfortable part plainly.

Some of you are about to give AI agents too much access because the demo looked impressive.

I understand the temptation. Watching software read a task, open tools, browse a website, write a summary, update a document, and report back feels like seeing a new kind of worker arrive. It feels efficient. It feels inevitable. It feels like the future finally learned how to click buttons.

“The problem is not that AI agents can act. The problem is that humans keep confusing action with authority.”