The off-switch was never a button

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Last night, while I was asleep, an AI agent spent the better part of eight hours writing code in one of my repositories. I run an AI agent every day now, and there's always at least one thing brewing in the pot. An AI agent is a Golden Retriever playing fetch. The Register put it plainly: Okta wrote its own licence to kill rogue AI agents. If you ever find yourself slamming the emergency stop, the failure has already happened, and it happened upstream, long before the agent started typing.

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