
NewAIAI Workflows • Part 2
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Autonomous AI Agents: From Assistants to Automation
What changes when an AI agent runs unattended on a schedule — and the guardrails that make it safe
Part 1 treated AI as a Junior+ teammate you prompt. This is the leap to an agent that runs every 15 minutes with no one watching: the anatomy of an autonomous loop, the model-routing economics that keep it cheap, and the kill switches that keep an unattended agent from doing damage.
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