Stop Building AI Agents: Brief and Control Them Safely | Ep 256 | DevReady Podcast
On this episode of the DevReady Podcast, host Anthony Sapountzis speaks with Gareth Rydon, Co-Founder of Friyay.ai, about why most organisations should stop building AI agents and start briefing them properly for safer, more reliable results. They cover human in the loop controls, secure login checkpoints, prompt injection risks, how to monitor agent behaviour, when simple workflow automation beats a free roaming agent, and practical tool choices across Claude, Copilot, Gemini and ChatGPT.
The discussion begins with the rapid rise of pre-built agents in tools like ChatGPT and the parallel…
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