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Research Directions
The Architecture of this Weblog Can Agents Trade What They Learn The New Land School The Wrong Layer Representation Before Generation Knowledge as Material
Agent-First Design
VI. What Comes Next: From Human-in-the-Loop to Safe Autonomy Tooling up Hermes Agent? Your Website Is Your First Agent Agentix: What Works Now The Home Page Is Not the Entry Point IV. JSON Outputs, Audit Logs, and Preparing for LLM Operators III. Dirty Trees, Stale Patches, and Git as a Safety Boundary Designing for Machines That Read II. Building Agentix: A Proposal-First Control Layer I. Why Agentix Needs a Safety Layer Design Systems as Public APIs Your Brand Voice Must Be Machine-Readable or It Dies AEO Is the New SEO, and the Game Is Different
Trust and Provenance
The Counter-Market for Provably Human Artifacts Verifiable Creative Provenance After the Deluge The Rare Book Underground Negative Attestations: A Public Record of Failure The Lemons Market for Agents Attestations as Design Surfaces
Second-Order Problems
The Physical-World Provenance Gap Capability Attestations for Humans: LinkedIn's Successor Agent-Readable Regulation: Laws as Types Cross-Temporal Attestations: Claims That Survive 50 Years Agent Death and Inheritance
Market and Operator Pieces
Niche Monopolies in the Agent Economy The Coadjute Problem: What an Agent-Native Property Network Looks Like Why Stripe Won't Build EU Agent Payments If You Can Leave, You Own It What Happens Without a Platform
Rabbit Holes
The Basilisk Mirrorpaper Building a Radio Telescope I Can Visit It Is Okay to Fall in Love with Your Agent Epistemic Horror as Methodology for Agent Design Powers of Ten as Interface Pattern The Arc from Lovely to I Wish I Didn.t Know Local Inference, Private Infrastructure Why I started thinking about waste heat
CarbonBench
The 24-Hour Carbon Curve Scope 3 and the API Call You Can't See Scaling in the Wrong Direction Grid Arbitrage: Why Region Choice Matters More Than Model Choice for Carbon The Same Model Costs 10x More Carbon in Virginia Than the Netherlands CarbonBench
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Research Directions
Agent-First Design
Trust and Provenance
Second-Order Problems
Market and Operator Pieces
Rabbit Holes
CarbonBench

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