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bardown59
·2 godziny temu·discuss
A security measure I use on my projects is never to give the AI models in production write authority at all - AI simply produces the "suggestion" in a structured format and then deterministic code validates it by making sure it conforms to pre-set constraints. This way, the blast radius of a really dumb decision is minimized. I do the same thing essentially in the codebase as well where we have architectural static analyzers that box in the agents and limit how stupid they can be with their changes.
bardown59
·15 godzin temu·discuss
Yeah, and how we build—and what we surface operationally—matters as well.

I run several AI-based products, and I’ve moved almost entirely to agentic coding, so this is a huge concern for me. One thing that has helped in the coding realm is separating planning from execution: I use a stronger, more expensive model for architecture, research, and difficult decisions, then hand the implementation work to cheaper agents where the task is more constrained.

On the product side, I treat token usage and costs like any other production resource. We record usage by request, user, feature, and model, surface it in admin dashboards, and set budgets and hard cutoffs.

Alerts are useful, but automatic limits matter more—especially as a small business guy so a 2 AM loop doesn't bankrupt me :)
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