Three boundaries to set before you hand an AI “ship” button
Accuracy isn’t what sets your accident cost. Authority, execution environment, and log design do—and they decide where you stop the agent across estimate → proof → inspection → shipping.
AI agents aren’t scary because they miswrite a sentence. They’re scary because once they can execute across steps, a mistake jumps straight into physical loss. That’s why you now have to design, in advance, where the system must stop—and what evidence you can still trace after you stop it.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
AI agents making “an estimate” is manageable—humans can fix small errors. But once an agent can “push a proof through,” “let inspection pass as an exception,” or “finalize shipping instructions,” mistakes show up on the physical side as reprints or misdeliveries.…
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