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- (1)A golden evaluation set — 200 tasks with expected outputs. If I can't measure quality, I can't ship safely. This is the most under-invested thing in AI projects.
- (2)A kill switch — one button that routes all requests to humans. When things go wrong (and they will), I need to stop harm instantly.
- (3)An audit trail — every decision the agent makes, with the full trace of why. For compliance, for debugging, and for the inevitable 'why did the agent do X?' question from the customer's CISO. Everything else — caching, scaling, fancy UX — can come after launch. These three are non-negotiable for responsible deployment."