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The Five Phases of AI Agency: Which Decision You Moved Into the Agent

Agent autonomy is usually pictured as a ladder — a low rung where the agent does a little on its own, a high rung where it runs nearly unattended, and the job is to climb. There’s a sharper way to read the same progression. Each step up isn’t more autonomy in some general sense; it’s one specific decision moving out of human judgment, or out of code, and into the agent. ...

June 3, 2026 · 14 min · Jared L.