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…
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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…
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…
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…