Autonomous Decision Making
Medium
- Category
- Excessive Agency
- Content
- The reproducible core (the thing a competitor could copy) is scheduled for an *early*, low-commitment disclosure rung. - An NDA is being treated as full protection, with no defense against independent reinvention or an enforcement plan. - A "demo" or "trial" would require handing over real access, source, or the full method rather than demonstrating outcomes. - The patent-vs-secret choice is being made by default or habit, without asking whether the advantage is reverse-engineerable and how long it will last. - The buyer keeps asking to advance disclosure "to build the relationship" while making no reciprocal commitment — and the seller is tempted to comply. - As a buyer: you are being asked to pay on the seller's word, with no intermediary certification, escrow, or verifiable proxy for what is withheld.
- Confidence
- 75% confidence
- Finding
- without asking
