Autonomous personal agent that asks before it acts — and what approvals really cost
A builder shares a personal agent where every irreversible action — sending, paying, booking — waits for a human yes. The discussion adds a refinement: tier approvals so reads and drafts run free while only irreversible actions interrupt, and batch low-stakes approvals into a digest. The real cost of approvals turns out to be attention fatigue, which leads to rubber-stamping.