JouleWork's proposed approach to bounded, cost-aware AI agents

In a post, JouleWork's author argues that AI agents should follow bounded, documented workflows instead of inventing a process. The author says JouleWork evaluates each step's expected utility against its cost in compute, latency and residual risk, then continues, defers or hands off the action. The proposed design keeps work in a company's environment, logs actions for review and uses different models for different tasks.