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Agent memory is a retention policy, not a database. The four memory classes, write and read rules, forgetting as a feature, and the store-or-recompute math.
Container, microVM, or separate account: what each agent sandbox rung actually stops, why egress policy matters most, and how to scope agent credentials.
The SSO tax is not a price for SSO. It is a segmentation fence, and the features behind it are chosen for willingness to pay, not cost to build.
Processors underwrite credit risk, not just fraud. Why delivery timing drives rejections, how reserves work, and the founder playbook for approval.
Correspondent banking survives every challenger because it is not a technology. It is a socialized compliance liability structure, and challengers rebuild it.
Technical debt has no principal and no fixed rate. The proxy metrics that work, why dedicated debt sprints fail, and how to frame it for a CFO.
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