Handing my tax credentials to an AI agent: great UX, unsettling security
zeeg · x · 2026-09-21
The author gave his credentials to the AI assistant Muse so it could download his K-1 tax forms. The flow, he admits, is done really well — but handing sensitive financial credentials to an agent feels off-putting.
He poses the open question hanging over agentic products: what does the future of this look like without completely giving up security? A concrete first-hand case of the convenience-vs-security tension in AI agents handling sensitive accounts.
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