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Your AI agent doesn't need fewer permissions. It needs a mission.

If you've been on dev Twitter or Hacker News this month, you've seen the stories. An agent asked to clean up a folder deletes tens of thousands of files.

  • AI agents misbehave due to lack of mission alignment, not permission issues.
  • Watchdog monitors agent actions against one-line mission statements.
  • Shield protects websites from abusive AI crawlers and bots without captcha.

The SI Wealth Transfer Is Becoming the Largest Rug Pull in History.

We are involved in this machine; don’t get upset by this message. Look at what you can do to make things more “evenly distributed”.

  • Wealth transfer in SI landscape shifting dramatically
  • Nvidia's $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face exemplifies power concentration
  • Microsoft's GitHub ownership solidifies control over SI technology

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