The Allowance Problem, Day 4: The Debit-Card Model for Agents
Cloudflare just gave AI agents wallets. Real stablecoins, capped spend, an identity per agent.
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The Allowance Problem, Day 3: More Supervision Doesn’t Equal More Judgment
Anthropic gave its AI shopkeeper a boss.
Read field note →The Allowance Problem, Day 2: The AI Boss Didn’t Save It
An AI agent ran a real shop, with an AI boss watching over it. It still ended the month ordering a PlayStation 5 and a live fish.
Read field note →The Allowance Problem: Credit Card or Debit Card?
We already ran the experiment: should AI agents get a credit card or a debit card?
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Would you give your AI agent a credit card or a debit card?
Read field note →The market is building identity-first AI controls
the market is converging on the same point — identity is becoming the control plane for AI.
Read field note →You can't govern what you can't count
if you can't count the agents, you can't govern them. The real enterprise AI challenge is visibility, identity, access, and control.
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