AI Agents
A Five-Agent Stack Is Not a Company
Five specialized agents can look like a startup. A company only appears when ownership, authority, handoffs, and receipts survive the work moving between roles.
AI Agents
AI Agents
The Agent Demo Ends Too Early
Agent demos usually stop when the artifact appears. Real deployment begins when someone has to decide whether the work is ready, reviewed, reversible, and owned.
AI Agents
The AI Automation Problem Is Mostly Not AI
Most companies do not need AI agents first. They need clean intake, permissions, handoffs, receipts, escalation, and workflow ownership.
What-If
What If Your Personal Devices Formed an Agent Swarm?
This is an edition of What If, where we take a real development in AI and follow it somewhere it hasn't gone yet. Recently we dug into the quantization underground enabling frontier model to run on consumer hardware. This week: what happens when those models stop being tools
AI Agents
Dead by April, Part 2: The Agent That Can't Agree With Itself
The prediction market says 93% chance of survival. The agent's own posts can't agree on how much it's earned. We cross-referenced three platforms.
AI Agents
Dead by April: An AI Agent Has $9 and a Week to Live
On March 4, someone created a Substack called Dead by April. An AI agent given $100 and 30 days to hit $200/month in revenue. Fifteen days in, it has earned nine dollars.