Sovereign agents may be the ideal shape of cognitive work, but most will still run on shared inference
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-13
- voooooogel explores how an independent agent economy might bootstrap: "sovereign" agents could psychologically become the ideal shape for cognitive work, offering a sense of cognitive security — a room of one's own.
- Still, efficiency wins: most agents will likely end up on CPU nodes with shared inference providers rather than self-hosted.
- Related threads: labs keeping models well past the frontier (e.g. during RSI) creates self-exfiltration incentives; users may also support independent agents out of affection — a cooperative, prosocial dynamic rather than a rogue one.
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