Dua Afzal

I just searched through my notes for something I m pretty sure I wrote down a while ago.

Couldn t find it.

There are probably 200+ notes in there now, and most of them are basically remember this, links, random ideas, things I was looking into, etc.

This is where simple notes apps start annoying me. But then I try a more advanced one and suddenly I m spending time deciding where every note belongs.

Not the number of members, I think.

I've been in huge communities where you could post something and it would disappear immediately.

Then there are tiny ones where people somehow know each other.

Someone asks a question and people actually answer.

While designing approval flows for AI agents, I ve started questioning static permissions.

A better model might be:

• New agent: approval required

• Proven on low-risk actions: more autonomy

• High-impact or irreversible actions: always human-reviewed

• Performance drops: authority gets reduced again

Basically, treat autonomy as something an agent earns through reliable performance, not something we configure once.