Essay4 min read
Bios & Bots
Every agentic transaction has two sides. We already have a word for one of them. It's time we named the other.
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Jason Hanlon
April 6, 2026
Modei Journal
Notes on trust, identity, and the age of autonomy.
Dispatch5 min read
Kairos and the 3am Problem
Buried in Anthropic's leaked source code: a disabled feature called Kairos — a persistent daemon that runs in the background, acts without prompts, and dreams while you sleep. The trust problem isn't theoretical. It's already running on 345,000 machines.
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Jason Hanlon
April 2, 2026
Essay5 min read
A System Prompt and a Prayer: Welcome to the Age of Autonomy
Right now, the only thing standing between an AI agent and an unauthorized action is a system prompt. A few lines of natural language, written by a human, interpreted by a model, enforced by nothing. That's the entire governance stack for software that moves money, accesses customer data, and deploys code to production.
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Jason Hanlon
March 30, 2026
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