As agents go always-on, developers must design a 'night mode' for safety
sujingshen · x · 2026-09-29
The author observes that offline assistants were a built-in safety brake—when you slept, they stopped. As the industry shifts to always-on agents that reply to emails and reschedule calendars overnight, that brake is gone. They ask agent developers whether they've designed a 'night mode': e.g., read-only permissions at night, or requiring human approval for high-risk actions regardless of time. A practical point that permission control in agent design may need a time dimension.
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