A TinyCTO.tv Hype Stack technical parable about autonomy budget, risk units, decision rights. Autonomy limits need explicit units, risk weighting, cumulative exposure, and stop conditions.
"# Episode 126 — The Autonomy Budget Had No Unit — Script"
"## Concept autonomy budget;risk units;decision rights"
"## Hype promise Autonomous agents will remove operational delay without increasing risk."
"## System reality The program approves an “autonomy budget” without defining whether it measures money, actions, risk, customers, or irreversible change."
Risk approval is not risk ownership unless the decision is tied to people who can act when the risk becomes real.