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Notes on trust, identity, and the age of autonomy.

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Essay7 min read

Bans Don't Scale

SAP banned third-party agents. ServiceNow installed a tollbooth. Workday is charging at the door. Each rational on its own. Together, they leave the enterprise with six audit trails and no answer for the regulator.

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Jason Hanlon

May 10, 2026

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Essay4 min read

Bios & Bots

Every agentic transaction has two sides. We already have a word for one of them. It's time we named the other.

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Jason Hanlon

April 6, 2026

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Dispatch5 min read

Kairos and the 3am Problem

Buried in Anthropic's leaked source code: a disabled feature called Kairos — a persistent daemon that runs in the background, acts without prompts, and dreams while you sleep. The trust problem isn't theoretical. It's already running on 345,000 machines.

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Jason Hanlon

April 2, 2026

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Essay5 min read

A System Prompt and a Prayer: Welcome to the Age of Autonomy

Right now, the only thing standing between an AI agent and an unauthorized action is a system prompt. A few lines of natural language, written by a human, interpreted by a model, enforced by nothing. That's the entire governance stack for software that moves money, accesses customer data, and deploys code to production.

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Jason Hanlon

March 30, 2026

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