Writing by Duncan Davidson.
Every agent builds a model of you, and each vendor keeps that model inside its own walls. I’ve written an essay for O’Reilly Radar that argues for a user-controlled home for personal context, drawing five lessons from a year of working out of a Markdown vault.
The arrival of agentic engineering changed the shape of both Webflow and my role in it. After recognizing that my energy was being pulled elsewhere, I’ve decided to take a leap into the unknown: research, hacking on things, and possibly agitating for standards and protocols that help agents actually know the people they work for.
Personal websites have moved from homesteads, to publications, to social-profile pointers. AI changes the reader again: assistants need durable identity, provenance, citation, context, and clear surfaces they can understand without hallucinating a platform-shaped version of you.