Monitoring is the wrong primitive: The future company is verifiable, not surveilled
tallmetommy · x · 2026-09-02
Responding to the difficulty of monitoring agents, the author argues that monitoring is the wrong primitive. Both humans and agents become manageable when work leaves receipts: authorship, resources used, changes made, and potential next steps. The future company shouldn't be surveilled, but verifiable.
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