🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video with a narrated tour of the build. TL;DR: In Part 2 I built the buy side: an agent that autonomously pays per article over x402 with Amazon Bedrock AgentCo…
AgenticCommerce
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2026
Getting Paid by Agents: A Managed Paywall at the Edge
From a Generic Voice to My Own: Self-Hosting a TTS Model on Amazon SageMaker
TL;DR: Last time, the demo video for my agentic-payments post was narrated by Amazon Polly: a clean, managed, recognizably synthetic voice. This time the same demo is narrated in my own voice, cloned …
I Built the Agent That Pays — Here's What I Learned
TL;DR: A couple of weeks ago I wrote about HTTP 402 and why AI agents might finally activate the internet’s oldest unused status code. The post sparked a real discussion, so I built it: a research age…
HTTP 402: The 30-Year Placeholder That AI Agents Finally Activated
TL;DR: HTTP 402 “Payment Required” has been reserved since 1997 but never used — because humans can’t approve per-page charges fast enough. AI agents can. The x402 protocol (Coinbase, 2025) revives 40…