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Thoughts on autonomous agents, distributed systems, and building infrastructure for the AI era.
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Byzantine Agents
When one agent reads another agent's output, it's trusting a peer that can be wrong in any way, with full confidence. Distributed systems have a name for that kind of peer: Byzantine. Design for it.
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09Sep 2026
02 · 8 min read
Iteration Fit
Building is nearly free now, so having built the thing proves less than it did. The fit worth finding is the domain where your loop closes faster than anyone else's, and that speed is set by the check, not the tooling.
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04Aug 2026
03 · 11 min read
Compute Equilibrium
An hour of compute costs what the marginal AI task can capture, not what the best one is worth. That single rule explains the price of accelerators, why capability leads stop paying, why the debt behind the build-out is its own problem, and the end of cheap elastic capacity.
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04Aug 2026
04 · 7 min read
Self-Improving Loops
A company is a set of loops, and a loop closes exactly where a check exists. What you can hand to an agent is bounded by verification rather than by capability, and that line is a better org chart than the one you have.
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24Jul 2026
05 · 6 min read
Software refineries
Factories make code to order, and agents broke that model. A refinery selects implementations from a catalog of known-good outputs instead of commissioning them fresh.
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05Jun 2026
06 · 11 min read
Sapient Class Problems
Agents make checkable work cheap. What stays scarce is the work no check can score, and that line is the real difference between narrow and general intelligence.
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20May 2026
07 · 7 min read
Semantic Analysis
The information that matters most is rarely the headline. It's the collection of faint, scattered signals that precede it, visible across dozens of unrelated sources, none of them conclusive individually.
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23Feb 2026
08 · 10 min read
Abundant Design
AI is collapsing the cost of design to near-zero. The race to map every Pareto-optimal solution has begun, and Semantik is the infrastructure it runs on.