Essays & Field Notes

The Journal

Essays on agentic AI and distributed systems, and the architecture that keeps them working under pressure.

total 101
span 10 yrs
topics 7
02

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…

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10

Model Escalation Is a Tool Call

On June 10, 2026, OpenRouter announced Advisor, a server-side tool that lets one model consult another model mid-generation. The obvious reading is cost optimization.…

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