Notes
Short pieces about the methodology and architecture decisions behind the AI systems I ship — specs, evals, multi-agent orchestration, LLM integration, and the discipline of directing coding agents.
June 5, 2026
An agent in every laptop — and the end of the token bill
Everyone spent the spring panicking about the token bill. This week NVIDIA showed a structural answer arriving this fall: the agent moves onto your laptop. RTX Spark runs a 120-billion-parameter model with a million-token context locally — no per-token meter, your data never leaves the machine, and it's faster for the snappy stuff. It won't replace the frontier. But it quietly answers three of the year's biggest headaches at once.
- ai-native
- business
June 5, 2026
The best security AI is now gatekept — plan like you're not on the list
This spring AI crossed a line: Anthropic's Mythos found thousands of never-seen zero-days on its own, and OpenAI shipped a 'cyber' model that's more permissive for hacking-adjacent work. The same model that finds a thousand holes to fix them can find them to exploit them — so the labs put the best security models behind a velvet rope, open only to vetted partners and governments. That's defensible. It also means a vendor now decides who gets defended. Here's the honest read for everyone not on the list.
- security
- business
June 5, 2026
One federal AI standard over fifty states — what it means if you build
Yesterday a 269-page bipartisan bill dropped that could override every state's AI law, and the headlines are loud. If you build with AI, the useful question isn't the politics — it's whether this changes what you actually have to do. The honest answer: far less than the headline suggests, because the rules that bind your product were never the ones this bill touches. Here's the two-layer version, in plain terms.
- business
- ai-native
June 5, 2026
The agent that "closes sales" — the part the demo hides
Meta just shipped an agent that doesn't only chat — it books appointments, qualifies leads, closes sales, and takes payments, 24/7, in any language, wired into Shopify and Zendesk. A million businesses are already on it. The demo is magic. What it hides: an autonomous thing acting on your business, at machine speed, on messages from strangers — and the law just closed the 'the AI did it' escape hatch. Here's the honest version.
- security
- business
- agents
June 5, 2026
"Which part do we agentize first?" is the wrong first question
The whole market has moved from 'are agents real?' to 'which part of my company gets agentized first?' — IT support, sales, reconciliations. It feels like the smart strategic question. It's the wrong one. Asking where to point the agent skips the two questions that actually decide whether any of it works: what does the agent stand on, and who answers when it's wrong. Here's the order that matters.
- methodology
- business
- agents
June 4, 2026
A token paywall is not SaaS
Founders are pricing AI products with SaaS instincts — flat monthly, per-seat — and quietly bleeding, because the thing that made SaaS magical is gone. Near-zero marginal cost is dead: every user burns tokens, forever, and cost scales with use. GitHub Copilot lost up to $80 a month per heavy user at a flat $10. AI products aren't software with great margins; they're closer to a utility with real cost of goods. Price like it.
- business
- ai-native