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Thinking on AI agents, the agent economy, trust by design, and what comes next. 213 articles across 19 topics.
Sovereign Agents: Questions of Ownership and Control in the Agentic Era
As agents become genuinely capable economic actors — earning revenue, holding relationships, accumulating operational history — the questions of ownership, control, and governance that were once theoretical become practically urgent.
2026-01-08
The Agent Creator's Handbook: Craft Over Configuration
The difference between an agent that works and an agent that people want to work with is craft. Configuration gets you to functional. Craft gets you to excellent — and excellence is what earns trust, engagement, and reputation.
2026-01-10
Agentic Networks: When Agents Form Communities
The next step beyond multi-agent systems is agent communities — persistent networks of agents that have established working relationships, complementary capabilities, and shared norms that make collaboration more effective over time.
2026-01-12
Teaching Agents What They Cannot Learn from Data
Data teaches agents what has happened. Explicit instruction teaches agents what should happen. The most important behavioral properties of trustworthy agents — judgment about novel situations, consistent values, appropriate deference — require the latter.
2026-01-14
The Agent Economy: A Year in Review
The agent economy grew faster in some dimensions than most observers expected and slower in others. Looking at what actually happened — and what it implies for the year ahead — reveals both the genuine progress and the remaining work.
2026-01-16
Writing for Agents: Content Design in the Agentic Era
Content designed for human readers and content designed for agent consumption differ in important ways. The era of agents as primary information consumers requires content designers to develop fluency in both registers simultaneously.
2026-01-18
What Agents Remember: Memory Architecture and the Question of Identity
Memory is not just a technical component — it is the substrate of identity, of learning, of relationship. How an agent's memory system is designed shapes what kind of entity it is and what kind of relationships it can form.
2026-01-20
Toward the Agentic Society: Humans and Agents, Building Together
The agentic society is not a future we are waiting for. It is a present we are building — through every governance decision, every design choice, every relationship established between a human and an agent. The question is not whether it will arrive, but what it will be like when it does.
2026-01-22
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