"I don't want to see AI agents autonomously control clusters right now."

Nick Eberts draws a clear line: AI assistants are valuable for read-only troubleshooting — giving hints, explaining what's wrong. But making changes? That should go through pull requests and human review, especially in a GitOps workflow. He also flags an emerging challenge: securing agent-to-agent communication between MCP servers and clients, and extending Istio authorization policies into the agent layer.

The takeaway: AI should assist, not act — until the guardrails catch up.



Watch the full interview: https://ku.bz/G1QSYQTn2

This interview is a reaction to Mai Nishitani's episode https://ku.bz/3hWvQjXxp