Agents deleted my work: Why agents still aren’t ready for production (Yet)

Opublikowano: 2026-06-16

An agent deleting a production database (and the backups) isn’t a sci-fi failure. It’s a boundary failure, and it starts with a human handing out credentials and permissions without a safe execution model to contain what happens next. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, Lori MacVittie and F5's Chief Product Officer, Kunal Anand, unpack why today’s agents are either dangerously overpowered or so constrained they’re barely useful, and what needs to change to make them viable. They dig into the current reality of “agent” features in mainstream tools, espec...