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Rod’s Blog · Sep 23, 2026 · Rod Trent
Treat AI Agents Like Employees. That Is the Only Way to Manage Them.
You would not hand a brand-new contractor a badge, a laptop, production credentials, and a vague instruction to “go be helpful,” you should not deploy an AI agent that way either.
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