Humans should be wary of surrendering our ability to decide why and how we operate.

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Agentic AI is having a moment. Claude Code broke into the mainstream in January, and in February, a speculative essay about the potential of agentic coding tools helped trigger a brief stock market sell-off. By March, OpenAI had publicly recognized the need to monitor internal coding agents for undesirable behavior.