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Permission Engineering — When Your AI Agent's Ceiling Isn't Intelligence, It's the Keys You Hand Over
Being a GenAI App Engineer increasingly feels like being a Permission Engineer. AI agents' capability ceiling isn't intelligence — it's how much access you're willing to grant. Every additional permission amplifies both power and risk. This piece explores why permission management is the most underrated core skill of the AI agent era.
What That xkcd Chart Didn't Tell You — Is It Worth Automating in the AI Era?
xkcd #1205 taught a generation of engineers how to think about automation ROI. But AI changed the most expensive variable in that equation: the real return now is often not minutes saved, but cognitive load removed.