Lesson 1197 of 2116
Agent Error Budgets
Error budgets shape agent reliability vs feature velocity. Setting them deliberately drives operational discipline.
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- 1The premise
- 2error budgets
- 3reliability
- 4feature velocity
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Section 1
The premise
Agent error budgets balance reliability against velocity; deliberate setting drives discipline.
What AI does well here
- Set error budgets matching use case stakes
- Track budget consumption
- Slow feature work when budget exhausted
- Adjust budgets as system matures
What AI cannot do
- Set perfect error budgets
- Eliminate the velocity-reliability trade-off
- Predict budget consumption
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