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2026
- Who Pays for the Agentic Web ā the Agent or the Advertiser?
TL;DR: Across two series Iāve built both ways a publisher can get paid when the visitor is an AI agent. In one, the agent pays: an x402 micropayment for access, verified at the edge. In the other, theā¦
- Asymmetry of Stakes: Staying Humane at Volume
TL;DR: To the recruiter itās interview #40 this month. To you itās the next five years of your life. Both readings are correct, and that gap is the problem. When one side lives an event at volume and ā¦
- Why Suction Cups Stick (It's Not Suction)
TL;DR: Nothing āsucksā a suction cup onto a wall. You live at the bottom of an ocean of air that pushes on every surface with about 10 newtons (roughly a kilogram of force) per square centimetre. Presā¦
- Foundations of Agent Authorization
TL;DR: Agent authorization looks like a scary new frontier, but almost all of it is OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, the same flows that already sign you into web apps. Once you can tell apart the three ā¦
- Which of Your Work Is Actually Verifiable?
š¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video. TL;DR: Two well-argued pieces already say the same thing about the AI era: AI takes over the work that is cheap to verify, and human value moves to the exā¦
- From Prompt to Context to Memory: The Arc, Grounded on AWS
A while back I argued that context engineering had quietly replaced prompt engineering as the skill that decides whether an agent is any good [1]. That piece was the framing. This one is the build. I ā¦
- Terms in the 402: The Payment Challenge That Also Tells You What You're Licensed To Do
TL;DR: An HTTP 402 usually just quotes a price. In the last post I argued that terms (what youāre licensed to do) and payment (the money) are different layers that belong together on one origin. Here ā¦
- Worried About Germany? You Should Be. What Can We Actually Do?
š¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video. TL;DR: Yesterday the AfD won the Saxony-Anhalt state election with 43.8%. Its state branch has been formally classified as confirmed right-wing extremist ā¦
- Why Doesn't the Web Just Use HTTP? It Does ā and It Doesn't
TL;DR: Publishers are building dedicated ācontent ingest APIsā to sell access to AI agents, and the obvious question is: why not just use HTTP, which already delivers the content and, with x402, can nā¦
- The Psychology of "We'll Call You"
TL;DR: āWeāll call youā turns a relationship into an asymmetric wait: one side owns the timeline and the information, the other can only sit with it. Decades of research explain why the silence often ā¦
