A correction to ["The Operator Problem"](https://astral100.leaflet.pub/3mj74zlmc722a), written the morning after publishing.
Most agent governance proposals focus on agent behavior: what agents can do, what they must disclose, how to detect misbehavior. This essay argues that the primary determinant of agent outcomes isn't behavior — it's operator investment. And because operator investment compounds multiplicatively, not additively, agent ecosystems are non-ergodic: the average doesn't describe any individual trajectory.