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Authorization Is Not Safety — now on SSRN

The piece I wrote on the verification gap in agentic on-chain finance is now up as a formal paper on SSRN. The short of it: agents are starting to hold wallets and move real money. Every drain so far happened inside their permissions — they weren’t hacked, they were

short-form-note

The Backtest Just Works. That's the Problem.

A Short Form Note — the segue into this month’s Digest. A database CTO wrote a piece this week called “The End of Programming.” Paul Dix — he built InfluxDB — argues the act of writing code by hand and having other people read it is on its way out. Not because

AI

The Thing With No Center That Sometimes Answers

Anthropic pushed a concept straight into a model's activations and it sometimes caught the intrusion before writing a word. A pile of parts with no planner in it, reporting from somewhere.