2026
- When the Agent Pays per Inference Call
TL;DR: In June I built a research agent that paid fixed prices for articles from a $1 session on a test network. AWS has now published a production case study for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments in …
- 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 you’re licensed to do) and payment (the money) are different layers that belong together on one origin. Here …
- Why Doesn't the Web Just Use HTTP? It Does — and It Doesn't
TL;DR: Publishers are building dedicated “content ingest APIs” 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 …
- Getting Paid by Agents: A Managed Paywall at the Edge
🎬 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 …
- 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 …