The Pricing Pivot Is a Confession
In March I argued that the token economy is long distance minutes. That the infrastructure shift was coming and the metering model would become indefensible the same way per-minute billing did once…
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In March I argued that the token economy is long distance minutes. That the infrastructure shift was coming and the metering model would become indefensible the same way per-minute billing did once…
We open-sourced the AWS AI Agent Bus. People use it. We used it. We get messages from teams running it and need help. This is a honest post about it all, and what we learned. The Part That Worked The…
The word "agent" did not come from AI. It came from law. A principal authorizes an agent to act on their behalf. The agent's acts bind the principal. The principal is liable for what the agent does…
The first post introduced the Principal Agent Protocol and walked through the proof-of-concept examples. The protocol primitives work. The question that matters now: what would you actually build…
Every agent-to-agent protocol currently in development was designed to serve platform operators, not human principals. A2A authenticates agents as platform entities. ACP focuses on enterprise…
AI vendors are selling token economies the way telcos sold long distance minutes. Right before the infrastructure made the metering model indefensible. Here’s what comes after it. --- That pattern…
Open up Claude Code on a new project and start prompting. It'll work. You'll get code, suggestions, refactors. But watch closely and you'll notice something: Claude is making assumptions everywhere.…
"Help me with a presentation." Five words, zero useful context. Claude will give you something back, but it's essentially guessing your audience, your goals, and your format all at once. Compare that…
This is Part 2 of our series on building a production-grade AI development workflow. Read Part 1: Why Your AI Coding Setup Will Eventually Hurt You --- Last week we talked about why most AI coding…
I've spent the last six years building production AI infrastructure for Baur Software. Not the kind you see in LinkedIn carousel posts with perfect Mermaid diagrams. The kind that runs unattended…