long reads on why openthings exists and where it goes. data where there is data, my reading where there is not, and sources for both. one take at a time.
ai has had its first order. the second has started, and it is missing its usability layer. where the money goes, ai as the new base layer, the hard problems every lab is working on, and why we need a movement like www again.
anshuliwritten three directions, one usability layer: open software your model runs, agents with a human behind them, and the protocols they stand on. opensoftware as the first thing you can use, and why putting the agent before the system makes the old systems collapse.
anshuliwritten eleven things, ranked by how soon i think they fall, from the file format and the call to the operating system and the privacy policy: what falls away once agents stand on both sides, and the far better things that replace each.
anshuliwritten the web was built for eyes, and the next one is built for agents. how search becomes a conversation between agents, why every agent needs someone behind it, why much of software becomes templates, who is building the agent web in pieces, and the questions nobody has solved yet.
anshuliwritten a long history of people carrying less in their heads so they could do greater things: writing, the ledger, the letter, the switchboard, the computer, the phone. and why ai is the biggest step yet.
anshulicoming soonwhat agents still need to become the first interface, and the plumbing we already have: context that goes with you, any model, memory graphs you own, the agents economy, and software that becomes scaffolding.
anshulicoming soonevery take has a markdown copy for agents, in /markdown.