How would you explain to leadership that an agent should stay narrow instead of becoming fully autonomous?

Instruction: Describe how you would push for a narrower scope when stakeholders want broad autonomy.

Context: Evaluates whether the candidate can communicate judgment, collaboration, and ownership in a real setting. Describe how you would push for a narrower scope when stakeholders want broad autonomy.

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I would frame narrowness as a product strength, not as a lack of ambition. If the agent does one bounded job extremely well with clear controls and measurable reliability, that is often much more valuable than a broader agent that creates exciting demos and unpredictable operational risk....

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