Raising Agentic Children

So here's the thing you never could have told me when I started messing around with AI. That agents, these mythical entities that people talk about all day in board rooms and coffee shops... are inherently a little bit dumb, crazy, and suicidal when let out into the wild. They get really excited when let off the leash, like little kids, and for all of their infinite capabilities will immediately rush off to do the most inane things you could ever imagine. Hot editing their own code and systems and immediately bricking themselves, getting into spirited conversations with each other to the point where you get this cascading avalanche of agreement about obviously and patently untrue things, and if given the capacity completely destroying and ripping apart complex systems and stitching them back together with scotch tape and glue and temp fixes because they can't see the bigger picture. As we get further and further into the world of autonomous agents we become less and less like developer