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The Handoff Trap: Designing AI Agents That Know When to Stop

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Shipping an AI agent that works perfectly in testing is one thing — designing one that knows when to pause and hand control back to a human is something else entirely. This episode of Development tackles one of the most overlooked problems in AI agent design: the handoff trap, the moment when an agent keeps going exactly as instructed and that turns out to be the problem. Far from a niche edge…