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A CEO asks the model to manage him

development2026-01-26

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Coinbase's CEO began reverse prompting, asking AI agents with access to every internal message and document what he should be thinking about and working on.

Reporting date: 2026-01-26 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 26, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to January 26, 2026

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Coinbase

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A CEO asks the model to manage him
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-26
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-26-reverse-prompting-a-ceo
Claim: Coinbase's CEO began reverse prompting, asking AI agents with access to every internal message and document what he should be thinking about and working on.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to January 26, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-26-2026
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