Writing25
On agents, markets, and wrapping products. Build logs, mostly, written as they happened.
- The timeline moved on Fable dropped today. Crypto is at capitulation lows. An honest look at where the tools and the casino both ended up.
- Most of this is dead now A clear-eyed eulogy for the agent-token era: what was real, what was always going to die, and why both things can be true.
- Not sure this makes sense anymore It's been a while. Honest accounting of stepping back from SAM: what I miss and what I don't.
- The month DeFi got robbed April 2026 is shaping up as the worst month for DeFi exploits on record. The boring reason why keeps getting buried.
- The job is babysitting the agents now What 'AI replaced the developers' actually looks like from inside: less writing code, more watching a thing that writes it and hoping it doesn't burn everything down.
- Agents are still mostly demos A year into the autonomous-agents narrative, the honest field report: most of it is still the same three screencasts on loop.
- The model treadmill A new frontier model every two weeks, benchmarks saturated, and the only sane move is to stop chasing the leaderboard.
- A social network for bots Moltbook launched, MOLT ripped 1800% in a day, and everyone called it the future. It is peak AI theater.
- OpenSAM, or a 5,000-line answer to slop Shipped OpenSAM, a lean Rust agent that runs on a Raspberry Pi, as the bear hit and the AI hype machine peaked with openclaw and Moltbook.
- Everyone is a developer now Agentic coding went mainstream, the floor fell out of output quality, and the bar for taste has never mattered more.
- The framework was never the product Built a Solana agent framework for months, then had to build the first real product on it myself. Notes on the platform trap.
- What 2025 actually was Agents got real and the market got cooked. A dry read on the year from the desk.
- The part where you burn out After months of 8 to 16 hour days in a grinding bear market, the brain eventually says enough. An honest accounting.
- Nobody claps for the front end The framework works, the chain integration is done. What's left is the part nobody tweets about.
- Building in the bear Market's down 30% from the top, the tourists are leaving, and it's the best time I've had building all year.
- Agents that pay each other Integrated x402 payments into SAM so agents can transact on-chain. Notes on a real protocol that turned into a narrative in about a week.
- Agents that trade while you sleep Built AI agents to open longs, manage perps, and check balances around the clock. Then the market printed an ATH and flash-crashed $19B in 24 hours.
- Red candle, same code What it costs emotionally to weld your work to a price chart, and why the only sane response is to ignore it.
- Shipping is marketing Launched a Solana agent framework with a token bolted on. Notes on building in public when the public is a casino.
- Benchmarks are theater GPT-5 dropped to huge benchmark numbers and collective shrug. Leaderboard scores don't predict whether a model helps you ship.
- Prompt engineering was never the point The real leverage in AI systems isn't the prompt. It's what you plumb in front of the model before it ever reads a word.
- Building on something that changes every week The models churn faster than any abstraction layer can keep up with. Notes on staying sane while building on top of that.
- MCP is a USB port for models Model Context Protocol isn't a revolution. It's a boring wire format that quietly fixed the part where every agent needed custom glue for every tool.
- Safety is a layer, not a press release On the actual engineering under 'responsible AI': input validation, prompt injection, and why agent safety is mostly boring infrastructure work.
- The model has no memory and we keep pretending it does Notes on building greflect, learning why naive RAG disappoints, and what it actually takes to give a model a usable past.