https://tommyeriksen.dk/posts/Recent content in Posts on tommyeriksen.dkHugoenWed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200https://tommyeriksen.dk/posts/making-myself-redundant/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200https://tommyeriksen.dk/posts/making-myself-redundant/<p><img src="https://tommyeriksen.dk/posts/making-myself-redundant/agent-guardrails-hero.jpg" alt="Small robot agents racing along a track, kept on course by guardrails, towards a human approval gate" /> </p> <p>So. When I did infrastructure engineering, I had a mantra: make yourself redundant. Whatever you&rsquo;re doing, automate it so it can run over and over. That freed me up for the important stuff, like coffee. Or YouTube (which hadn&rsquo;t really been invented yet).</p> <p>Come to think of it, when I made the roadmap for my first PO gig (an operations team), there was a dot on it where it made sense for me to exit and a new skill set to take over.</p>