Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's table stakes now. What haunts us is the mental image of an agent autonomously approving a six-figure vendor contract at 2 a.m. because someone typo'd a config file.We've moved past the era of "ChatGPT wrappers" (thank God), but the industry still treats autonomous agents like they&#x