AiGENTiA Insights
Field notes from the AI Agent Economy
Where the argument is going
Twenty-one essays across four threads: the agentic economy, agent engineering, mind and machine, and the physical limits underneath.
Agent Engineering
Agent Lifecycle Management
Agents are treated as features and disposed of as experiments. They behave far more like employees — and nobody has an offboarding process.
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Agentic Internet and the Code of Business Conduct
Commercial norms were written for actors with human limits — fatigue, attention, a working day. Agents have none of them, and the old code of conduct does not bind what it never anticipated.
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Agentic IQ, Agent Onboarding and the Agentic OS
A capable model in an unprepared company underperforms a mediocre one that has been properly onboarded. Capability is not the variable most organisations think it is.
… Read moreMind & Machine
AI vs MI, and Machine Empathy
Machine intelligence and artificial intelligence are not the same claim, and machine empathy is a third thing again — behaviour that functions as empathy without any of its interior.
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Are Appstores Dying?
App stores solved discovery for humans browsing shelves. Agents do not browse, and a distribution layer built for browsing has nothing to sell them.
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Attention and Behaviour Engineering
Attention engineering was aimed at humans and worked. Turned on agents, the same techniques meet a target with no fatigue, no boredom, and no memory of being manipulated.
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Business in a Box
When execution stops being the constraint, the binding constraint becomes architecture. That inverts what a company is for.
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Can't Compete, Compute
Compute access is becoming the thing that decides which companies and which countries get to participate at all. That is an industrial policy question wearing a technical costume.
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CEO of Your Own Life, or Digital Prison
The same delegation that frees you sets the boundaries of what you will ever consider. Agency and capture are produced by identical machinery.
… Read moreMind & Machine
Cybernetics and the History of AI
Most of what feels new was argued out in the 1940s and 50s. Cybernetics lost the field to symbolic AI and is now, quietly, winning it back.
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From Founder Duos to Solo Founders
The two-founder norm encoded a division of labour between building and selling. Agents absorb enough of both that the second seat becomes optional — and the cost of that is rarely counted.
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Is AI Leading to Super Industrialization?
The industrial revolution scaled physical output and hit physical limits. This one scales cognitive output — and the claim that it is different rests on whether cognition has its own ceiling.
… Read moreMind & Machine
Is Humanizing AI an Error?
Human framing makes these systems usable and simultaneously makes them impossible to reason about accurately. It is not obvious the trade is worth it.
… Read moreMind & Machine
Neurodiversity 2.0: Digital vs Biological Neural Nets
Digital and biological networks fail in different directions. Treating that as a defect to be corrected, rather than a difference to be designed around, wastes both.
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Physical Data and AI
Models have consumed the text of the world. The physical world is not text, and it is not digitised — which is where the next constraint bites.
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Prompt / Context / Loop / Harness Engineering
Four distinct disciplines get collapsed into the word prompting, and that collapse is why so much agent work fails in ways nobody can diagnose.
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Scarcity Is Changing: The Abundance Problem
Cheap cognition does not end scarcity; it relocates it. The newly scarce things are energy, trust, attention and verification — and none of them get cheaper.
… Read moreMind & Machine
The Mental Health of AI
Systems degrade under load, drift under pressure, and behave erratically in ways operators describe in psychological language because no better vocabulary exists. The vocabulary may be wrong; the phenomenon is not.
… Read moreAgentic Economy
The Zero Click Problem
The open web was funded by the click. When the answer arrives without one, the funding model for the thing being answered from disappears.
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They Don’t Have AC — How Will They Have AI?
The discourse assumes reliable power, cooling and connectivity. Much of the world has none of the three, and no amount of model progress supplies them.
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What Does AI Actually Replace?
Not the circle, not the square — the compass. What AI replaces is the tool that draws the shape, not the shape itself.
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Will Agentic Commerce Give Rise to Direct to Consumer?
Intermediaries survive by owning discovery and trust. An agent that can evaluate a supplier directly needs neither, which is a problem for everyone standing in the middle.
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