The Unreliable Agent: Why Guardrails Are Not Guarantees Companion Essay Back to Main Article Series Navigation The Great Inversion | Fifty Years of Paradigm Shifts | Current: The Unreliable Agent | The Burning Question Agentic Reliability Companion The Unreliable Agent: Why Guardrails Are Not Guarantees A companion section for The Great Inversion, focused on the operational and security limits of natural-language guardrails in agentic systems. There is a comforting myth forming around AI agents: that if we give them better prompts, stricter system instructions, more detailed guardrails, and a checklist of forbidden actions, they will behave like obedient junior engineers. They will not. The uncomfortable truth is that AI agents are not deterministic programs executing rules. They are ...
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