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Intelligence Is Not Authority: Designing the Trust Boundary for Agentic AI

Starting from Satya Nadella's insider risk argument: why the agent execution plane and the authority control plane have to be separate, why identity is not authority, and which layer enforcement belongs in.
AI Doesn't Define Seniority. Engineering Judgment Does.

Knowing Claude Code, or knowing how context windows and tokenization work, does not by itself make an engineer senior. AI made producing code cheap. Engineering judgment, knowing what to verify, and knowing what is worth doing are still what senior engineers are for.
Agent Identity Introduction

Why an agent needs an identity of its own, why identity is really four separate questions, what the ideal state looks like, and what a single tool call should actually be checked against.
Link is Up Doesn't Mean Connected: Porting Android to a Set-Top Box With No Serial Port

Twenty-three build rounds, eleven falsified assumptions, and why the most convincing evidence was an interrupt counter that stayed at zero.
Designing an Agentic AI Flow Inside an Enterprise

Wrapping device operations as tools an agent can call: the three layers, why a tool description is an inference rule rather than documentation, and the two shells a deeplink has to survive.

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