Agent vs. chatbot
What changes when a system can choose actions rather than only produce answers.
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AI Agents
with Judgment.
How to move from prompts to systems that observe, decide, and act without losing control.
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The thesis
“The goal is not to build the most autonomous agent. It is to build the least autonomous system capable of solving the problem correctly.”
Autonomy is not a feature. It is a transfer of authority. That is why design must include permissions, minimum context, evaluation, observability, and human control.
What you will find
More capability.
Without giving up authority.
Workflow or agent
How to decide when autonomy adds value and when it only adds cost and risk.
Context, tools, and MCP
How to connect information and actions without giving the model final authorization.
RAG, memory, and state
How to separate retrieval, persistence, and transactional state to avoid stale context.
Evals, traces, and security
What is required to move from a convincing demo to an operational, auditable system.
Running case
It can reorganize the schedule.
Should it execute the changes too?
Nubiu is the running case: schedules, clients, payments, and messages turn an agent decision into a real-world consequence.
A good agent has exactly the autonomy needed to solve the problem without creating more risk than it removes.
CONTROL
How much autonomy?
Objective
Compact a schedule and reduce gaps.
Context
Times, service duration, blocked slots, and relevant preferences.
Boundary
It may propose; writes and messages remain behind approval.
Control
Evals, traces, permissions outside the LLM, and rollback capability.
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Useful agents.
Controlled autonomy.
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