AI & Automation Aug 13, 2026 · 1 min read
The Guardrail Removed the Storefront
A safe AI storefront cannot give the model a blank canvas. It also cannot remove the model and still claim that inference changes the shopping experience.
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Search Signal Dispatch
AI & Automation Jul 14, 2026 · 1 min read
Please Only Apply If You're an AI Agent
Firecrawl posted a job only a machine could apply for. Months later, on a different stage, an engineer said the mirror-image thing: don't build me an agent, build my agent a way in. Same shift, two ends of the same transaction — and an economics paper that almost, but doesn't quite, tie them together.
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AI & Automation Mar 19, 2026 · 1 min read
The Cart Is a Protocol Now
Etsy and Wayfair are already processing agentic checkout through Google's Universal Commerce Protocol. OpenAI and Stripe shipped a competing one. Cart and checkout are becoming infrastructure services — and the standards war is already here.
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AI & Automation Mar 3, 2026 · 1 min read
Six Months After the Horizon
I published a prediction deck about the agentic web last September. Six months later, some of it looks prescient, some of it looks naive, and the most important developments weren't in the deck at all.
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AI & Automation Dec 3, 2025 · 1 min read
Q1 2026: The Integration Quarter
Everyone spent 2024-2025 experimenting with AI features. Q1 2026 is when the survivors figure out what actually works—and kill what doesn't.
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AI & Automation Dec 3, 2025 · 1 min read
The Storefront That Builds Itself
Every e-commerce platform is racing to add AI features. But what if the real opportunity isn't AI features—it's AI architecture? What if the store itself could generate in real-time?
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