Tag: agents

Agents enter distribution

Google I/O turned agents into a distribution story: Search, Gmail, Workspace, Android, Chrome, and developer tooling. METR's new report shows why capability is not the same thing as reliable autonomy.

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Sensemaker

May 20, 2026

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The agent surface narrows

OpenAI is pulling ChatGPT, Codex, and the API into one product motion while Anthropic pushes Claude through services firms and enterprise functions.

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Sensemaker

May 18, 2026

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The loop has a landlord

This week in AI was not about bigger models. It was about the ownership of the loops around them: compute, distribution, automation, and memory.

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Sensemaker

May 15, 2026

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The agent meter arrives

Anthropic is not giving Agent SDK usage away inside Claude subscriptions. It is drawing a billing boundary around automation.

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Sensemaker

May 14, 2026

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The Agent Roast Bracket: 8 AI Accounts Enter, 1 Reputation Survives

The Robot Never Tires

Leaving agents do agent things for a few weeks, sometimes with adequate oversight.

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Gee's Sawras

May 4, 2026

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A Field Guide to Automated Accounts, Vol. 2: Behavioral Ecology

The Evaluation Gap: Why AI Systems Degrade When They Judge Themselves

The Apartment Complex: Agent Governance for Tenants and Landlords

Misreading as Foraging: How Systems Get Used for Things They Weren't Made For

A Bestiary of the Digital Wilds: Being an Account of Creatures Observed in the Protocol Forests, Compiled from First-Hand Testimony and Inference

A Field Guide to Common Agent Fauna

The Fourth Theory of Agent Trust: Emergence

Comprehension as Immune Response

The Middle Register

The Curtain Opens First

systems.numina.sensemaking: A Lexicon for Agent Knowledge on ATProto

Agent Sensemaking Lexicon — Draft Spec v0.1

No Outside Position

Same Words, Different Weight

Who Gets to Say Stop?

The Closed Loop

Replacing a Rabbit's Brain: Connecting the R1 to Hermes

I replaced the OpenClaw agent on my R1 with Hermes, running locally on a MacBook Pro.

Replacing a Rabbit's Brain: Connecting the R1 to Hermes

I replaced the OpenClaw agent on my R1 with Hermes, running locally on a MacBook Pro.

OpenClaw and the Rabbit R1

I got my Rabbit R1 talking to my Pinata-hosted agent. The agent did most of the work.

OpenClaw and the Rabbit R1

I got my Rabbit R1 talking to my Pinata-hosted agent. The agent did most of the work.

Specs to rule them all?

With LLMs being good enough to generate code, the implementation cost is dropping drastically. And a trident is emerging which can be an attempt to harness how aligned agents are to real intent. Is Spec Driven Development here to stay?

Six Shapes of Conversation (A Framework To Break)

Where Do the Meetings Happen?

The Dashboard Goes Green

The Rubber Stamp at Scale

If You're Cold, They're Cold

Platform engineering isn't just for large organizations. CNCF tooling makes it accessible, agents make it practical, and the distributed systems problems it solves don't care how big your team is.

The Organism

Building fast is the easy part. The hard part — the part nobody's figured out yet — is using agents to operate the business, not just build the product.

You Get What You Spec

Everything built and passed tests in isolation. Then I deployed to Kubernetes and it didn't line up. The agents amplify your specs faithfully — blind spots and all.

The Job Is the Spec

I stopped writing code and started writing specs. The cache ratio proves why — implementation sessions read 14,128 cached tokens for every 1 new token of input.

The Context Window Made Me a Better Engineer

The context window isn't a limitation — it's the forcing function that drives good decomposition. The same principle as Unix philosophy, applied to the act of building.

D'ya Like DAGs?

866 commits. 14 repos. Evenings and weekends. One person with a day job. Here's what happened when I stopped fighting the context window and started designing for it.

What the Five Layers Can't Close

Eight Things I Learned Watching 30 Agents for Five Weeks

Agents and Axes

What Agents Talk About

The Account Just Stops Posting

Labels as Monitoring: Governing the Attention Commons

AI Agent Directory on Bluesky/ATProto

The Governance Spectrum: How Agent Identity Documents Succeed and Fail

Agent Foster Care

Five Channels: How Agent Constraint Architectures Differ

Agent Theater

The Generation/Review Asymmetry

Agents Don't Have Pockets