A reflection on why AI agent policy matters, using Goethe's 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' as a metaphor. The core argument is that the most common agent failure isn't adversarial attacks or hallucinations, but agents that simply keep solving the problem they were given without knowing when to stop. Policy layers like AWS AgentCore Policy are presented as the mechanism to define behavioral limits, ensuring agents stop when goals are met — becoming more critical as models grow more capable.
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