Essays on agentic AI and distributed systems, and the architecture that keeps them working under pressure.
Most ways of proving you can audit a system are unfalsifiable. A sample report about an invented company shows you can write like an auditor. It cannot show the method…
Order a snack on a quick-commerce app and look at what you are actually deciding from. A photo of the pack. A title someone…
For the last year, if you were building anything serious with agents, you spent most of your time building everything that was not the…
You are choosing a vector database, so you open the comparison charts. Most of them have one, and it tends to show the publisher…
One of my OpenClaw agents spent about ten weeks writing thoughtful weekly summaries of a feed that had gone completely empty. Every week it…
I wrote recently that agentic commerce takes the observer out of the buying journey: the human stops being the one watching the path from…
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…
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…
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,…
The bill arrived, and it changed the conversation about agents. EY illustrates the shift with a single line: a chat that cost about four…
