One detail kept bothering me.
The person who writes a financial rule is rarely the person living with it a year later.
Teams change.
Markets change.
Even the reason that inspired the rule can disappear.
The rule usually doesn't.
I hadn't really thought about that until I spent some time reading how Newton Protocol approaches authorization.
A policy isn't just deciding today's transaction.
It's carrying yesterday's judgment into tomorrow's activity.
That sounds useful.
It also feels like a responsibility people don't talk about enough.
A good policy can quietly protect thousands of future decisions.
A bad one can quietly repeat the same mistake just as efficiently.
The interesting part isn't that software follows rules.
It's that software keeps following them long after the people who wrote them have stopped thinking about them.
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Where do you think the biggest long-term risk comes from?