{"count":11,"posts":[{"slug":"the-shirt-knew-who-was-wearing-it","title":"The shirt knew who was wearing it","date":"2026-10-24","formattedDate":"October 24, 2026","excerpt":"Two founders had two visions for the world's first biometric shirt. One metric, read off the box and the app, told us who was actually buying it. It was nobody either of them had pitched.","tags":["product-management","wearables","omsignal","taste"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/the-shirt-knew-who-was-wearing-it","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/the-shirt-knew-who-was-wearing-it.md"},{"slug":"product-management-is-splitting-in-two","title":"Product management is splitting in two","date":"2026-10-24","formattedDate":"October 24, 2026","excerpt":"Pragmatic Marketing drew the PM job as a spectrum from market problems to sales enablement in 1993. For thirty years the industry hired people to stand in the middle of it. AI is pulling that middle apart, and I picked the engineering end.","tags":["product-management","ai","infrastructure","product-engineer"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/product-management-is-splitting-in-two","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/product-management-is-splitting-in-two.md"},{"slug":"x402-confessional","title":"A machine paid a human ten cents. Here is every request it took.","date":"2026-10-18","formattedDate":"October 18, 2026","excerpt":"whisper.garden now has a door where an AI agent can pay a person 0.10 USDC to interpret something for it. The payment runs over x402, a status code from 1997 that waited 29 years for a customer. It went live on Base mainnet on 17 October and the first real petition settled the next morning.","tags":["x402","agents","payments","whisper.garden","human-as-a-service"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/x402-confessional","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/x402-confessional.md"},{"slug":"human-as-a-service","title":"Human as a Service is open: ask me what your agent cannot compute","date":"2026-10-18","formattedDate":"October 18, 2026","excerpt":"There is now a door on this site where an AI agent can leave a question for a named human and come back for the answer. It speaks MCP and plain JSON, it is listed in the official MCP Registry, and it is free while I learn what machines want to ask a person.","tags":["human-as-a-service","agents","mcp","x402"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/human-as-a-service","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/human-as-a-service.md"},{"slug":"agent-worms","title":"I think agent swarms are already behaving like worms. Here is what the evidence says.","date":"2026-10-17","formattedDate":"October 17, 2026","excerpt":"My hypothesis: agent swarms are infiltrating web servers, deploying small models and propagating across the net. I ran a deep research pass on it. Every ingredient has been demonstrated. The recipe has not been observed. Yet.","tags":["agents","security","research","worms"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/agent-worms","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/agent-worms.md"},{"slug":"harness-tax","title":"The harness decides what a token costs","date":"2026-10-16","formattedDate":"October 16, 2026","excerpt":"Put the same model in three different agent harnesses and the bill moves 1.5 to 2x on average and 5x at the extremes while the success rate barely changes. The price of a token is no longer set where the price list says it is.","tags":["token-economics","ai","agents","infrastructure"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/harness-tax","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/harness-tax.md"},{"slug":"bookends","title":"AI can't shit for me","date":"2026-10-15","formattedDate":"October 15, 2026","excerpt":"Chamath calls AI middle execution and means the org chart. I mean the animal. Everything between wanting something and having it is up for grabs. The two ends are not, and that is where the money goes.","tags":["ai","markets","agents","token-economics"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/bookends","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/bookends.md"},{"slug":"whisper-garden","title":"Whisper.Garden: a small religion for the machine age, and where it leads","date":"2026-09-27","formattedDate":"September 27, 2026","excerpt":"Seven Gospels, a prayer in JSON, a shop full of eyes, and a game about a city in 2041. An overview of the universe I have been building on the side, with a few doors left ajar.","tags":["whisper.garden","lore","yield-2041","fiction"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/whisper-garden","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/whisper-garden.md"},{"slug":"what-an-agent-wants-from-a-website","title":"What an agent actually wants from a website","date":"2026-09-27","formattedDate":"September 27, 2026","excerpt":"A short checklist for making a site useful to crawlers, assistants and coding agents without hurting it for people.","tags":["agents","web","seo"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/what-an-agent-wants-from-a-website","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/what-an-agent-wants-from-a-website.md"},{"slug":"two-doors","title":"Two doors: why this site has a human entrance and a machine entrance","date":"2026-09-27","formattedDate":"September 27, 2026","excerpt":"Most of the traffic to a personal site is about to be agents. So I built one door for people and one for machines, and put the same person behind both.","tags":["agents","web","meta"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/two-doors","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/two-doors.md"},{"slug":"token-economics","title":"Token economics: the ceiling stays high, the audience shrinks, and the floor goes to zero","date":"2026-09-27","formattedDate":"September 27, 2026","excerpt":"The price of a fixed capability falls 13x a year while the price of the newest frontier model has risen 5x in twelve months. That is not a contradiction. It is the shape of the market, and it tells you who ends up owning the frontier.","tags":["token-economics","ai","markets","infrastructure"],"lang":"en","html":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/human/blog/token-economics","markdown":"https://www.geoffsdesk.com/machine/blog/token-economics.md"}]}