Your Provenance Vector Dies at the Storage Boundary
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Last post I argued that agent trust should be a typed provenance vector : carry what-degraded-and-how alongside each result, propagate it, let each consumer apply its own policy. The comments agreed on the model and then immediately found the two places it breaks in the real world. Both are load-bearing, both were things I hand-waved, and this post is about them. mote asked what happens when the agent runs 500 steps and the vector no longer fits in the context window. Mykola said the quiet part…
1Key Takeaways
- Last post I argued that agent trust should be a typed provenance vector : carry what-degraded-and-how alongside each result, propagate it, let each consumer apply its own policy.
- The comments agreed on the model and then immediately found the two places it breaks in the real world.
- Both are load-bearing, both were things I hand-waved, and this post is about them.
- mote asked what happens when the agent runs 500 steps and the vector no longer fits in the context window.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that last post I argued that agent trust should be a typed provenance vector : carry what-degraded-and-how alongside each result, propagate it, let each consumer apply its own policy.
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