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Risks of AI automation and how to roll it out gradually

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Essence

AI automation doesn't only speed up the good stuff. An agent writes code faster, but it just as quickly produces subtle bugs, duplication and token bills, and a pipeline with write access becomes a new attack surface. The risks fall into six groups: quality, architecture drift, cost, security, licenses and data, and accountability. Each has technical and process countermeasures, and almost all of them come down to one thing: checks and permissions matter more than the model.

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