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The 7 Levels of AI Shadow Modes (And Why Staging is a Comfortable Lie)
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Dev.to | Mar 11, 2026 | Kowshik Jallipalli
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What it solves: Exposing the new agent to real user data. What it solves: Preventing the shadow agent from executing destructive side-effects. The Sycophantic Judge: The Divergence Engine (Level 5) uses an LLM to judge the shadow agent.
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