Building an AI Agent Takes a Weekend. Governing It Takes Much Longer
Last weekend the season finale of House of the Dragon ran for seventy-five minutes. I decided that was long enough to build an agentic chatbot. That was my goal. And I was determined to make it. So I watched the episode on one screen with a terminal open on the other, betting myself I could have it working before the credits.
The bet held, roughly. By the time the credits ran I had a working chat interface, a dashboard, tool access, and a model that could take a request, work out what needed doing and go do it. Under any definition anyone would recognise, it was agentic. It was also completely ungoverned. No limits on what it could touch, no record of what it had done, no point at which a human had to agree before something happened.
It was a dragon nobody had trained yet. Capable of everything, governed...
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