The limits you set

A system that can act on its own needs a point at which it stops acting on its own. Otherwise the only thing standing between a small mistake and a large one is that nothing has gone wrong yet.

So there is a line, it is written down, and you are the one who draws it.

A limit is a plain sentence rather than a setting. Nothing goes to a customer without me seeing it. Nothing above this amount goes out without a second look. Nothing at all happens on a Sunday.

They are yours to set and yours to change, and changing one is a conversation rather than a request that goes into a queue.

It stops and waits, and you are told that it is waiting. It does not carry on and mention it afterwards, and it does not quietly do nothing.

Waiting is the safe failure. It is chosen on purpose, because the alternative is only comfortable right up until the first time it is wrong.

If you never think about limits at all, the defaults are the cautious ones. Nothing outward-facing goes anywhere without you.

You have to actively loosen it to get anything looser, and most owners never do.