Building the agent and securing it

Earlier this year, I wrote about how vibe coding an AI governance platform forced me to rethink governance itself. Building agents took the problem much further. When I built the platform, I was the operator. I described what I wanted. The model generated code. I tested it. That loop was fast, sometimes uncomfortably fast, but the accountability was always clear. I was making the decisions. The model was executing them. Agents changed that relationship fundamentally. An agent does not wait for instructions. It receives an objective, decides how to pursue it, selects tools, accesses data, takes