barin adegboye
work
about me
law grad. product person. not a lawyer — fortunately or not, depending on the day.
leading product at tokenwear.
cinephile — my letterboxd if you’re interested.
i torture myself with chess most days.
why i do this
i have always felt technology's highest purpose is making every person self-sufficient — the basic architecture of a good life, accessible to anyone. look at maslow's hierarchy — the base needs, the ones that consume most people's lives entirely — technology should be solving those.
but it was fuzzy, without conviction. then i read richard brautigan's all watched over by machines of loving grace — specifically its final image of humans "free of our labors and joined back to nature." not a future where technology dominates, but one where it handles enough of survival that people can return to themselves.
though it sounds utopian, it was caring and emotional, unlike the dystopian future of technology we've been sold.
dario amodei's machines of loving grace extended that intuition into what AI specifically could mean for humans flourishing.
— just one question. what if it all goes right? wouldn't that be beautiful? i think that's a quest worth pursuing.
the race toward AGI is the most consequential expression of that pursuit.
and as models get smarter, the natural next step is already unfolding — agents are being plugged into economic environments, equipped with capital, becoming autonomous economic actors capable of transacting and generating value with minimal human intervention.
but as the stakes get higher and we seed off more control, what happens when these systems are sovereign by design? when they own and control resources at scale, operate autonomously, and the human oversight layer is deliberately thin? the edge cases compound. the risks are systemic.
the infrastructure for this future is being assembled. the layer that captures it at scale in a standardized, safety-tested and accountable manner isn't.
that's what i'm spending my 20s figuring out.