Developer proposes a 'blast radius' test for AI agents before building
Few-Garlic2725 · reddit · 2026-11-12
An agent developer proposes asking a 'blast radius' question before building any AI agent: what happens if it gets something wrong?
- A bad internal note is low risk; misrouting a high-value customer, missing a compliance issue, updating the wrong record, or sending the wrong message is far riskier
- Blast radius shapes everything: trust, pricing, autonomy, audit logs, approval flows, and whether customers adopt it at all
- Agent builders focus on capability, but buying decisions hinge on failure modes
- The author asks the community how to actually test blast radius before choosing which workflow to build
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