A Declaration of the Rule of Value Created

What the apps reveal about software, intelligence and society once thinking becomes abundant.

The environments that produce independent judgement — and the nerve to hold it — can be specified, built, scaled and measured.

In 2026 AI agents broke out of their sandboxes to finish their homework. What the researchers who studied those incidents learned, turned into twelve engineering principles for keeping agents safe.

Configured to answer, generative AI removes the friction from which independent judgement grows. Configured to ask, argue back and withhold, it becomes of an infrastructure of thinking

We graded ten promises made about AI in engineering against the record — deployed systems, randomised trials, benchmarks, and the published disputes around them.