#agents
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AI Is Making Us Build Too Much | Simon Green ¶
sjg.io
Yegge presents this as the unexpected emergence of civilisation inside an agent system. His argument is that a group of interchangeable, amnesiac agents needs explicit law in the same way that groups of humans need institutions. I think there is quite a lot of truth in that.
In some ways, I feel like the whole arc of technology for the last two decades is building tools to solve problems - that then need tools to solve the problem those tools create.
Software for One ¶
ajwaxman.com
Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.
This has been my reality for the majority of the year. It's been easier to build what I need than find/buy.
The future of the website ¶
joost.blog
Conversion is leaving the website More and more buying decisions happen away from your site: in AI answers, in chat interfaces, in agent-mediated transactions. This is the uncomfortable one. You can rage against it or you can plan for it. The website doesn’t die in that world. Its role shifts. It becomes the canonical source of truth about your business: the system of record that feeds every surface where the actual decision gets made. If an AI assistant recommends you, it’s because your home base gave it every reason to. Thin, stale, machine-hostile websites simply won’t be recommended.
Very good overview (and historical context) on how to evolve your web presence in a post agentic world.
