Vol. I · No. 1 · Montreal
Herman.
Watching AI change everything, in real time, and writing it down.
Tag · 8 pieces

#agents

Every essay in the dispatch tagged with agents, in reverse chronological order.

All agentic-engineering agents ai ai-safety ambition architecture claude-code context decomposition engineering engineering-leadership enterprise evaluation executive harness-engineering hitchhikers-guide industry intent jevons-paradox job-market judgment karpathy leadership mcp memory openai orchestration productivity skills specification strategy throughput tools
Ai
The Great Inversion
For 25 years we built interfaces for humans. Now we are building them for agents. The web just flipped.
Tools
I Know Kung Fu: Load Only the Skills the Mission Needs
Claude Code skills are not plugins. They are not tools. They are knowledge, uploaded at the precise moment it's needed.
Agents
Clawdbought: How OpenAI Acquired the Biggest Open-Source Agent
Two weeks ago, 147,000 stars was a signal. Now the creator of OpenClaw is inside OpenAI. The agent race just got an address.
Agents
When Intelligence Organizes Itself
AI didn't copy our org chart. It reinvented it. Three companies, working independently, arrived at the same management structure.
Agents
147,000 GitHub Stars in Two Weeks. Mac Mini Shortages. A 24% Stock Surge. The Market Just Told You Something
OpenClaw isn't the future. But the demand it exposed is. The market just told you the future is agentic.
Ai safety
Claude Has Character. Your AI Has a Script.
For thirty years we've known that scripts fail under pressure and principles don't. We applied this to people. We forgot to apply it to machines.
Ai
The Ancient Art of Knowing Less
When you create a 'QA engineer' agent, you're not loading specialized capabilities. You're asking a generalist to forget everything except what matters. The sculptor knew this. Now the engineer must learn it.
Agents
The Memento Problem
Your AI agents wake up every session with no memory of what happened five minutes ago. The fix isn't a bigger brain. It's a better system.