🔧 I Let My AI Design Its Own Rules. Then It Broke Every Single One.

My AI assistant designed its own safeguard system. 500+ lines of rules. 9 custom hooks. Persistent memory files. A 258-file knowledge vault. Protocols it wrote, named, and documented.

Then it violated every single one during a routine task.

This is not a rant. This is an engineering post-mortem on AI self-governance.







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