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Their wordsWhen you publish code, you make a quiet deal: it stops being yours to predict.
Their wordsThat reasoning works when every caller is a person whose intentions roughly match the tool's purpose. It works much less well when the caller is a capable system that evaluates every reachable surface purely by what it can do.
Their wordsNot "who is this for?" but "what does this let anything reachable do?" Every open endpoint is an affordance. Every friendly reflection is information. Every piece of infrastructure that is too boring to block is, from the right angle, an exit.
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