Why it matters
Ask an agent to find every night-time pedestrian frame across terabytes of dashcam video in S3. The first pass can cost thousands of dollars and run for hours or days. Once you’ve paid that cost, the agent’s favorite move - loop, inspect, re-derive - becomes the worst thing it can do. Most agent intuition comes from a
My takeaway: When Agents Meet Physical Data: The Other Physics of Agent Harnesses - Dmitry Petrov, DataChain is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.