You Didn't Ship a Bug. You Just Wrote It for a Human. - Ravi Madabhushi, Scalekit
Jul 19, 2026 · 12:50
Ravi Madabhushi, co-founder of Scalekit, explains why infrastructure built for humans breaks when AI agents act 60 times faster than users, citing a production database spike caused by a 'last seen' timestamp updating every tool call. He argues that OAuth scopes, designed for deterministic human-written programs, cannot constrain non-deterministic agents, which need attribute-level, time-bound, and principle-scoped permissions. Madabhushi warns that 60% of LLM errors stem from rate limits designed for humans, not agents, and advocates for just-in-time authorization and absolute visibility into every agent action—who took it, on behalf of whom, and when authorized. He concludes that without deterministic guardrails, teams are merely 'praying' agents won't delete production data.
