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Your Agent’s Prompt Is Not Its Mandate

Once software can trade or pay, financial authority has to survive outside the conversation.

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Dave Glaser has spent more than 25 years in payments. He is the former CEO of Dwolla and held leadership roles at Mastercard, Worldpay and CyberSource.

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Your Agent’s Prompt Is Not Its Mandate

Recent writing

Man and Machine: The First Voice Was the Wrong Voice

Who Owns the Machine That Does the Work?

Anthropic's leaked numbers and the AI trade

Publication routes

AI Operator

Fin:Tech & Zen

Which Day Are We On?

QSTVE Weekly