The environment has thirty-four resources, including a VPC, subnets, an RDS instance, and a load balancer that hasn’t seen any traffic in weeks. The owner tag reads deploy-agent. Nobody typed that in; it was auto-populated because the identity that ran that apply doesn’t have an individual name, badge, or last day. That last part is the crux of the problem. A departed employee at least leaves some kind of trail: an exit interview, a Slack history, the manager who inherited their mess. Agents leave none of that. The task finishes, the context window closes, and whatever they built keeps...

Source: The New Stack