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I Want a Personal Agent. I'm Not Running One Yet — Here's What Would Change That
TLDR;
In Part 1 I walked through the March 2026 failures: ClawJacked, the OpenClaw CVE flood, the Axios RAT, the Claude Code source map leak. This post is the constructive follow-up. I’m not anti-agent — I want a personal agent badly enough that I’ve been actively testing alternatives. But I’ve set a bar, and nothing I’ve tried clears it yet. Here’s what the bar looks like, what I’m testing (nanobot, nanoclaw, kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox), why prompt injection is the attack you can’t patch with a CVE, and the pre-flight checklist I’d want cleared before I point an agent at my real credentials.
The View from Outside the Glass: Why Growing Organizations Need the Outsider's Mirror
TL;DR, Growing engineering organizations get trapped in the “inner loop” — high-velocity execution that slowly drifts from strategic intent. An external consultant’s value isn’t superior knowledge; it’s lower latency to the truth. This post explores why speaking up is an act of service, not arrogance, and how the “outsider’s mirror” helps teams move from reactive execution to intentional alignment.
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