Most people that architect an AI agent think to ask a binary question: is this tool call allowed, yes or no? Michael Davis, Global Chief Security Architect at J.P. Morgan, argues it's never that simple.

He walks through the four dimensions robotics uses to decide whether it is safe for an arm to move (the state of the system, the state of the environment, the quality of the decision-making, and the uncertainty of the action itself) and maps each one to agents: did the agent gain tools or network connections it did not have before, is it still moving semantically toward its goal after 30 tool calls, and what has the agent already tried.

We get into why if you think you need memory, you're probably not thinking of your problem the right way. We also explore software factories and why they need to operate as a cumulative progressive process versus a one shot of go build me this SaaS. Over the course of the episode we piece together what a good reference architecture for agents could look like.