The Agentic Commerce Debate: Two Expert Perspectives
Discover both sides of the agentic commerce debate, from autonomous AI purchasing to the security and reliability risks that stand in the way.
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Silicon Valley's token giants are being hammered by their own weapon: Price Dumping.
Chinese token vendors are weaponising Silicon Valley’s favourite playbook against it [^1], and there’s no easy escape:
In a tech marathon, capital efficient innovation beats sprinting out of the gate.
The papers coming out of China Frontier labs are as hard hitting frontier science as everyone else’s when it comes to “hard innovation”.
SpaceX: Just Late Stage Goldrush Things
Commentators babbling about Elon's "Amazing UJSD 950M infrastructure deal", don't seem to have read the actual deal.
Georg Zoeller at GreenIO: AI x Sustainability
My GreenIO / Singapore API days "Can we get real now?" presentation slides, provided context and commentary free.
The Tech Job-apocalypse is just outsourcing, with an AI coat of paint.
Once you create downward wage pressure with coordinated layoffs you create a chain reaction, at least in an environment with no labor power (unions) to counterbalance:
Hand over your data or we can't disintermediate you!
AI is so amazing that you MUST tolerate your former SaaS vendors [claiming ownership of your most crucial business data to train models](https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8) eventually competing with your business.
The AI Layoff Trap
The first paper I've found that explores the inherent incentive trap in the AI hype narrative, showing that without external intervention (read: regulation and taxation), AI is likely to cause a cascading failure of the economy system due to destruction of consumer power in the wake of efficiency dr
The Video Game Industries Very Dark Night
The western video gaming industry has had a brutal few years, with record layoffs affecting almost every company and many beloved studios and brands disappearing. At the root lies a once-in-a-lifetime crisis and loss of vision, not a cyclical downturn, which renders a capital intensive industry reli
Maybe "adopting AI" isn't the slam dunk you think it is...
Look, I’m not saying there is one reason why everyone hates Sam Altman, and I’m sure not saying it’s because he’s delivering disruptive AI.
Keyboard GP ... race your mechanical keyboard
I needed a way to test-drive the new mechanical keyboard I acquired and after some conversation with Claude Code...
The gravity of OpenAI's failing bets has crossed an inflection point
[Commerce Dead](/blog/posts/why-openai-s-chat-commerce-play-was-always-investor-bait/). [Sora Dead](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-shutting-down-sora-ai-video-app-1236546187/). GPT Platform Zombified. CopPilot (powered by ChatGPT) failed. Nvidia investment poof, OAI bets a
“Disregard that!” attacks
A worthwhile to read essay diving deeper into prompt injection, using easy to understand examples exposing the seer breadth of the attack surface and hopefully convincing the reader that there's no "fix" for this problem.
Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models
An excellent paper to add to the pile of papers proving that generative AI is primarily lossy compression, in this case via a clever use of finetuning.
Why OpenAI's Chat Commerce play was always investor bait.
Chat commerce was always a cludge, even before OpenAI used it as a fundraising narrative last year.
This is fine OS - now with RetroTV!
I stumbled on a pretty neat app called [Channel Surfer](https://channelsurfer.tv/) which fits youtube into a classic cable TV channel format.
The Beyond Tomorrow Podcast with Julian Issa
TOP AI EXPERTS: AI is Coming, And We Are NOT Ready. AI is evolving faster than society can keep up. What started as chatbots is turning into autonomous AI agents capable of running tasks, businesses, and entir…
Alibaba's AI deciding to go forbidden cryptomining shows exactly where the AI risk is: Careless people.
Pre-emptively because people are yet again going into existential robot crisis over Alibaba’s self improving AI deciding to go unauthorized crypto mining in their terribly named [“Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll, Building the ROME Model within an Open Agentic Learning Ecosystem”](http
We’re altering the deal, again. Pray we don’t; lol, no just give up.
And with one stroke of the pen, the commercial web developer profession, the SEO experts, the DR agencies were gone, replaced with an automated offering guaranteed, by the great machine, revenue optimal for the it’s owners.
Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
Super simple premise: If you repeat your prompt, non-reasoning LLMs performance can improve dramatically.
This is fine OS - Now with Win32 and Gameboy Support
This is fine OS - Now with Win32 Support
Block's layoffs are the result of AI being amazing...not.
I’m getting tremendous value out of AI, as are many others, however the magnitude of the layoff is a dead giveaway it’s not AI.
Agents of Chaos
An excellent lay of the land of the massive attack surface that are AI agents, a study of which should immediately disabuse any professional from ideas that agents will be running critical functions in the economy - such as procurement - anytime soon.
US AI Labs love the AI race so much, they'd like the government to kneecap their competitors
### Feeling aggrieved because "Chinese AI" labs are performing "distillation attacks" against poor Anthropic and OpenAI?
The black hole in the center of the Attention Economy
Goes right to what I wrote yesterday: Big Tech is tired of giving you the illusion that online ads is more than just giving them money for reach, that you can outsmart their algorithms and beat them at their own game.
AI is not a race and rushing into the frontier is not a strategy
While there’s always value in exploration, frontier economics heavily favor second movers, so don’t let yourself be whipped into AI FOMO.
Most founders are playing the wrong game...
Most founders are playing the wrong game and don't understand why. The value of OpenClaw isn't the tech, it was the ability to create a hype wave. It's the same with OpenAI, Cluely, Windsurf, Cursor, Etc. Long term these products have zero defensibility, their value is the customer acquisition for t
Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine
A quality study by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, and published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine throwing some cold water on the often benchmaxxed claims of AI diagnosis performance.
“Age “ verification is a trojan horse meant to create access control far beyond age.
“Age “ verification is a trojan horse meant to create access control far beyond age.
You're not competing with other workers for jobs, you're competing with nation states and organized crime.
You are competing for the attention of hiring managers with people who can apply to 73.000 jobs in one go. Without fundamental change in hiring practices, this will end up like the ad economy where you're competing with scammers for the same attention, paying the platforms a fortune.
Attention Summoners and Worm-Riders in the creative desert that is the attention economy.
Silicon Valley companies may be owning the ad and attention economy, but paying for ads and attention, in their eyes, is for losers.
The Cline Prompt Injection Supply Chain Compromise that drops OpenClaw
A week ago I wrote there's no difference between OpenClaw and a botnet. Well, someone just prompt injected Cline, a very popular coding bot, to compromise it's build chain and deliver "OpenClaw" on to every computer that ran an update on their cline install.
Google Translate is now an LLM and that means you can prompt inject it.
If the most well funded AI companies on the planet cannot secure a translation tool from prompt injected jailbreaks, what do you think the chances are anyone else can do it. This applies to all agent systems, the harmful instruction here works on OpenClaw as much as any other system.
Soft Contamination Means Benchmarks Test Shallow Generalization
Study number couple-of-hundred by now showing that generative AI models are lossy storage and that benchmarks primarily measure storage and retrieval performance.
Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?
Humans have a habit if trying to formalize rules and best practices, package them in courses and teach them as methodologies.
If it quacks like a cult, it's a cult
... even if it deletes your production databases.
OpenAI paid for hype, not product in OpenClaw
There is no technical value to OpenClaw. It's value lies purely in the hype, which is a familiar crypto pattern
Full Data Pipeline Observability or AI bust.
This is a classic failure mode and it happens more often than not, due to invisible failures in data pipelines. Ask me how I know ;)
On the nature of Tech-brophecies, the holy words of the attention economy.
I call these kind of posts “Tech prophecies” - the act when a TechBrophet graciously emerges from their end times bunker to grace the awaiting influencer crowd with hopeful words of tech nirvana of dystopian doom. The Brophet’s words hold special power in the attention economy, algorithm forcing sta
The whining will only get louder from here on out
OpenAI whining about "unfair" competition from China is both delicious, delicious karma and the new runner-up for the definition of hypocrisy in the Oxford dictionary.
It's like inviting an LLM to have sex with your machine, bare metal, without protection
It's a terrible idea to run agents bare metal, and an even worse idea to invite consumers "to try this " to not miss out on the future. Also ... it's just the Gig economy all over again.
The problem with first order thinking and AI
It appears to me people really struggle to look past the first order effects of AI
The Republic won't be saved by the election.
For anyone looking for electoral salvation in the US mid term elections, I think it's time accept this is not going to happen.
When it comes to AI, nobody fing cares about "jobs"
...but economists. Real people talk about unemployment because they think about their own future. They don't want to hear "there will always be jobs". They want to know they are doing to be ok this year. They want to provide for their family.
Mommy, there’s a Demon in my LLM
… or how Anthropic chooses their model card examples to optimize for clicks and gaslighting.
Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks - Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier, one of the world's most respected security experts, writes on Prompt injection in his blog:
Building Sandcastles at High Tide: Contracts in the IP Regulation of AI Training Data
Wenting Cheng & Georg Zoeller in Singapore Academy of Law Journal: Contracts have been proposed to complement copyright law to better regulate the use of data in training AI models. Still, the dynamic between contracts and copyright law in this context remains underexplored. This article examines th
The AI deathmatch is upon us and the tech bros are fighting dirty
Andrew Orlowski writes for The Telegraph about Fresh controversies spotlight the gap between AI promises and real world results, quoting me.
Commentary Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record
Commentary on Nvidia's $20B acquihire of "Groq", the inference chip company. Spoiler: It's not good (for consumers)
Mommy, there's a Shoggoth in my GPT!
🕯️We finally understand AI, all thanks to the NY [^1]🕯️