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Intent Is Not a Feature. It's the Architecture.
Remember when we called it system instructions? Then roles. Then purposes. Then goals? Now it's intent. The term changes with the cycle. The underlying question: does this agent actually do what it's supposed to do? What "intent" actually means architecturally, mechanically, at the point of enforcement varies enormously across implementations. That difference is the difference between controls that hold under pressure and controls that look complete on paper and fail in production.
Chen Pipek
