AWS principal engineer says the best engineers are ‘paranoid and lazy’ when it comes to AI
THE SO WHAT
Treat agent oversight as adversarial ops, not feature work — “paranoid and lazy” is shorthand for assuming failure modes and automating every check you can. If your best people aren’t actively trying to break and de-risk your agents, you’re running production systems on vibes.
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