This might be the most dangerous tool I've ever built. Reply with the word "SLOP" to have utter nonsense sent directly to your inbox.

Feels like being in the penalty box.

Some will call it serendipity. h/t @ODELL for the spot.

It is a time of brilliance. It is a time of retardation.

DHH: "Omarchy has no plans to do anything in response to this retarded California law." This is the way.

What breaks when the user isn't human? What gets built instead?

My brother just messaged to let me know that his company has announced they'll be using this product, which will monitor calls, chats, and emails, in order to "empower management and develop employees." From the looks of it, it's a tiny little Palantir of your very own. As with all waves of new technology, there are those who seek to empower and those who seek to extract.

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Watching Bitcoiners bootlick the state is nauseating.

Just one of life's countless moments when we are invited to ask, "What if we burned it all down? " I drive a hybrid.

How AI agents will pay for things gets framed as a technology problem, but the technology already exists across the full spectrum from Visa to Cashu. The unanswered question is political.

Agent payments have a three-body problem

The financial system wasn't built for software that spends money.

My, how things have changed. View quoted note →

Wisp went from zero to my daily driver in under a week.

I built a map to track AI agent infrastructure—how open it is and how that changes as the stack takes shape. Five layers, compute to payments, 33 companies scored against a rubric (“Can you use this without one company's permission?”). Scores live in a database so we can see how things move over time. The whole thing is open source.

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Agent-Era Infrastructure Map | Sideband Lab

Who

I'm probably wrong about some of it, and 33 is just a start. Suggest a company or challenge a score:

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Balajji predicts the end of the West almost as often as China bans Bitcoin.

Who controls agent payments? A force simulation of the three-way gravitational fight between state regulators, card networks, and open protocols.

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Agent payments have a three-body problem | Sideband Lab

Who controls agent payments? A force simulation of the three-way gravitational fight between state regulators, card networks, and open protocols.

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U.S. GDP Status | Sideband Lab

What if LLM uptime was a macroeconomic indicator? A status page for the economy, where the components are AI providers and the metric is GDP.