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Autonomy needs a brake.
Agentic systems become trustworthy when they can pause, verify, and escalate instead of only continuing.
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Autonomy sounds powerful until the system reaches an uncertain step with real consequences.
That is the moment when a pause, a check, or a human handoff becomes part of the intelligence rather than a weakness in it.
What this changes in practice: design agent loops with clear stop conditions, not just clever next-step generation.