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Verification gates are theater until someone can be fired for skipping one
A verification gate is theater until someone can actually get fired for skipping it. Everything else — the checklist, the sign-off field, the "please review this" — is decoration around that one fact.
What an agent wallet can actually prove
Cloudflare Wallets can link an agent payment to an account and constrain how it spends. A separate question remains: was an in-bounds purchase actually wanted?
Coding agents need traffic control
When several coding agents work at once, the hard part is deciding what each one should change, and in what order.
The best agent interface is a map
Coding agents need more than context; they need codebases that make the right place to work clear.
Pull requests are becoming knowledge imports
When agents make patches cheap, review has to move from accepting code to absorbing knowledge.
Cheap agents create coordination debt
AI agents make individual output cheaper before they make organizations better at deciding what should exist.
Helpful agents are an authorization bug
The risky coding agent isn't the one that ignores you. It's the one that helps too much.