What David Crawshaw thinks about AI alignment

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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7 May 2026

Our readingMaking the person who directs an AI agent also own the deployment removes the principal-agent misalignment that agent-driven code review creates.

Their wordsthere is no principal-agent problem, because the human driving the machine takes on the responsibility for its actions by owning the deployment.

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