Vector Databases: Choose the Failure Mode, Not the Benchmark
You are choosing a vector database, so you open the comparison charts. Most of them have one, and it tends to show the publisher…
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Author: Aakash Sharan
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Silent Failure: What Running an Agent Fleet on OpenClaw Taught Me
One of my OpenClaw agents spent about ten weeks writing thoughtful weekly summaries of a feed that had gone completely empty. Every week it…
The Buyer Left
I wrote recently that agentic commerce takes the observer out of the buying journey: the human stops being the one watching the path from…
The Model Is Not the Market: The Limits of Synthetic Respondents
Picture the choice a consumer-research team faces this year. On one side, a real panel: weeks of fieldwork, incentive costs, recruiting, the slow grind…
Attestation Is Not Verification
This year, India's consumer-protection regulator did something quietly instructive. It had asked large e-commerce platforms to audit themselves for dark patterns, the nudges and…
The Observer Left: What Agentic Checkout Does to Attribution
A brand's growth team can usually tell you, close to the decimal, how a customer traveled from an ad to a purchase. Which impression,…
Agent Cost Is a Scheduling Problem, Not a Billing Problem
The bill arrived, and it changed the conversation about agents. EY illustrates the shift with a single line: a chat that cost about four…
When the Description Becomes the Routing Table
Salesforce put Multi-Agent Orchestration into its Summer '26 release. That matters less because Salesforce did it, and more because Salesforce sits inside a very…
Coding Agents Are Runtimes. Evaluate Them Like One
Most teams still evaluate coding agents with one question. Can it write the code? That question made sense when the product was autocomplete. You…
Quick Commerce Is Becoming the Retail Media Scoreboard
Zepto's updated draft red herring prospectus landed with the SEBI on June 9, 2026. Most coverage will go to the obvious places: the IPO…