Beny's Blog
Notes from the control layer.
Why we exist, where this is going, and what we're learning building the harness.
The state of agent governance.
Personal agents crossed from talking to acting; the governance mostly didn't. Measured against a thirteen-point standard, where the category stands today — and where Habenula does, held to the same bar in public.
Read →What we believe, and how we build.
A plain statement of what Habenula is built on — the human in command, openness you can verify, the model as powerful and untrusted — and what each commits the team to when it's inconvenient.
Read →What everyone means by “agent.”
You have used the AI that talks. An agent is the AI that acts — a language model with tools, running a loop, doing things on your behalf. The plain-language place to start: what the word means, how the loop works, and why acting changes the stakes.
Read →The last interface.
As machines absorb the doing, the interfaces built for human doing disappear. An essay on the one surface that can't be automated away — where a person still grants, bounds, and stops — and why its design decides who keeps the wheel.
Read →The industry shipped the power and skipped the controls.
The models got astonishing; the judgment about shipping them did not. A sourced walk through the pattern — impersonation, opaque weighting, taken data, governance by dialog box — and what it adds up to.
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