My AI agent only became useful after I defined where it had to stop
Inner-Town-5609 · reddit · 2026-09-25
An applied AI researcher and matchmaking agency co-founder shares how her LinkedIn community-growth agent — which researches candidates and maintains an outreach pipeline in Google Sheets — only started reducing real work once she set an explicit stopping point: all post-connect messages wait for human approval. Setting that boundary mattered more than making the agent more autonomous.
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