I spent the first month of running a small food company on AI agents (small programs that each handle one piece of the work) assuming the risk was the software getting things wrong. It wasn't. The risk was a program that could read everything and write anything. Early on I had agents with broad database access, because it was faster to wire up that way. Nothing catastrophic happened, but I noticed I got nervous every time I handed off a new task, because I could not say for certain what the pr...