Alex Komoroske
American technologist; former head of corporate strategy at Stripe and product leader at Google, co-founder and CEO of Common Fabric, and writer of the weekly Bits and Bobs notes.
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Their wordsNetscape originally thought they'd be the next Windows. But the web was a fundamentally different kind of thing that enabled all sorts of newness -- think: publishing a page for anyone in the world to read. AI will be the same.
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Their wordsLittle, helpful utilities are still dangerous. For example, a wordcount utility or file converter. You just hope the person who created the software won't misuse your data. You have to implicitly trust every piece of software you use, even for mundane tasks.
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Their wordsAI makes infinite software possible: if you want something to be different, you simply ask. Would you like your grocery list to be sorted by aisle? Ask. For programmers, that’s a massive reduction in friction. For non-programmers, it’s a revelation.
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The limit on what AI can do for you is trusting it with your data, not how good the AI is.
Their wordsIt’s established that AI can do a lot of useful stuff for you… but only if it has the right data. The limiting factor is not how good the AI is, it’s trusting it enough to give it all the data it needs.
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Their wordsIt doesn’t matter if you wouldn’t be fooled, if your agent would be. Your agent will very helpfully read every word (including hidden text) and has no reliable way to differentiate between information and instructions.
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Agents become far more powerful only with a trust model that makes autonomous action safe.
Their wordsIs an agent just an extension of you and working under your direct supervision? Or can it take speculative actions on behalf of you? The latter is required to make it 1000x more powerful. But that requires a trust model where autonomous action is safe.
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Their wordsWe use “auth” to mean both authentication and authorization. That works when most actors are humans, who are embodied and can be held accountable. Agents break this norm. The difference will start becoming extremely important.
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Their wordsAll software is effectively open source now. Agents can decompile and do a clean-room implementation of almost anything. What would have been a gargantuan undertaking is now a hobbyist’s afternoon. Software is no longer scarce.
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Their wordsImagine if your agents were talking with all of your LinkedIn contacts to see if it might make sense to meet. Private information about your schedule and priorities would be sloshing all over the place. For net new AI use cases, we need a new physics of trust.
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Their wordsThe default architecture for multi-user agentic software today is for everyone's agents to talk. You're effectively letting everyone you interact with prompt inject your agent. That's a high trust bar to clear for collaborators!
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Their wordsAI is as useful as the context it can see & tools it can use. Two bad options: agents too siloed to be helpful or agents you trust with reckless abandon. This dilemma is an artifact of a security paradigm from the 90s. I think it’s overdue for an update.