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…
Essays & Field Notes
The Journal
Essays on agentic AI and distributed systems, and the architecture that keeps them working under pressure.
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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…
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.…
Substance Over Surface: Where Anthropic and OpenAI Agree on Reasoning
There is a comfortable intuition about making models safer. Show the model good behavior. Constrain what its reasoning is allowed to look like. Keep…
The Agent That Finishes Is the One to Worry About
Most agent failures are easy to recognize. The tool call fails. The browser times out. The code does not compile. The agent loops. The…
Chat Is Universal. Agents Are Gated by Governance
Anthropic published a survey on May 27, 2026, of 1,260 social scientists, fielded in late February and March 2026. One pair of numbers carries…
The Harness Is the Control Plane: A Distributed Systems View of Agent Failures
Nine seconds. That is how long it took an AI agent to delete PocketOS's production database in late April 2026. The agent (Cursor running…
Why Your AI Agent Keeps Making the Same Mistakes
Your agent makes a mistake on Monday. You patch the prompt. It works on Tuesday. On Wednesday, a slightly different input triggers the same…
The Agent Runtime Era: Models Can Use Computers, Now Your Stack Needs To
For the last two years, the center of gravity in AI has been the model. Bigger context. Better reasoning. Better coding. Better benchmarks. That…