How to prevent AI from making expensive mistakes
Answer:
Combine approvals, limits, monitoring, and rollback so failures are caught early and blast radius stays small.
The full story
The goal is to keep the blast radius small: catch failures early, and make rollback easy.
Practical guidelines
- Use approvals for one-way-door actions.
- Set hard limits (budgets, scopes, allowlists).
- Add monitoring, alerts, and a kill switch.
A good rule: start conservative, measure outcomes, then expand autonomy where the data supports it.