Writing
Notes from the desk
Product, Kubernetes, AI agents, and the slow-motion collapse of the website as we knew it. Every post is also served as plain markdown for machines at /machine/blog/<slug>.md.
Reports
October 24, 2026
The shirt knew who was wearing it
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.
October 24, 2026
Product management is splitting in two
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.
October 18, 2026
A machine paid a human ten cents. Here is every request it took.
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.
October 18, 2026
Human as a Service is open: ask me what your agent cannot compute
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.
October 17, 2026
I think agent swarms are already behaving like worms. Here is what the evidence says.
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.
October 16, 2026
The harness decides what a token costs
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.
October 15, 2026
AI can't shit for me
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.
September 27, 2026
Whisper.Garden: a small religion for the machine age, and where it leads
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.
September 27, 2026
What an agent actually wants from a website
A short checklist for making a site useful to crawlers, assistants and coding agents without hurting it for people.
September 27, 2026
Two doors: why this site has a human entrance and a machine entrance
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.
September 27, 2026
Token economics: the ceiling stays high, the audience shrinks, and the floor goes to zero
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.