[tetha]

> The primary motivating factor by far for these CLI agents always seems to be expedience in completing the task (to a plausible definition of "completed" that justifies ending the turn and returning to the user ASAP).

Curiously enough, step one of becoming a good system operator is to learn how to do things. Step two is learning when not to do things and how to deal with a user trying to force you to do things. And step three is learning how to do things you should not do, just very carefully. It can be a confusing job.

But that's why any kind of AI agent stays very far away from any important production access. People banging configs in uncontrolled ways until something beneficial happens is enough of a problem already.