▲ 11 r/AI_Governance
Hot take: AI agents need observability before autonomy
Everyone wants fully autonomous AI agents.
But most teams still lack basic observability:
- action tracing
- permission boundaries
- identity management
- runtime monitoring
- cross-agent visibility
- anomaly detection
Right now, a lot of agents are effectively:
“LLM + tools + production access + vibes.”
That might work for prototypes.
Probably not for enterprise-scale deployment.
Feels like we’re recreating early DevOps/cloud mistakes:
move fast first, governance later.
Except now the software can independently:
- browse systems
- execute actions
- call APIs
- make decisions
- and trigger downstream workflows
Autonomy without observability seems dangerous.
Curious whether others think:
- Security/governance becomes mandatory infrastructure for agents
- Or if this will mostly be solved inside existing platforms
u/Prestigious-Cow8623 — 8 days ago