Why it matters
It pokes at a real operational question teams are avoiding: how much unattended autonomy to grant coding agents, and what happens to engineering habits once skipping permission checks becomes routine.
The tokenmaxxing angle
The flag named in the title governs how many actions an agent takes unsupervised before a human checks in — exactly the lever that determines runaway tool-call and token spend on unattended coding agents.
From the organizers
Speaker Everett Bogue's listed bio is self-consciously satirical ("kayaking instructor," "CTO of ANProto," maintainer of Secure-Scuttlebot), framing a talk hosted by Digital Delivery Chicago.