--- title: openthings. the takes: writing from the build url: https://openthings.live/takes/ description: long reads by anshuli on why openthings exists and where it goes: the long take, the things, what collapses next, and the agent web. data where there is data, and sources for both. --- skip to content the takes. writing from the build # the takes. what i see, written down while i build it. 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. written by **anshuli** founder of openthings, and its first employee. fourteen years building, six of them in ai. [@anshulix on x ↗](https://x.com/anshulix) [01 updated 26 oct 202620 min read the long take ## why i am finally building openthings. 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. anshuli written 20 oct 2026 - read it](https://openthings.live/why/) [02 updated 24 oct 202610 min read the things ## the things. 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. anshuli written 21 oct 2026 - read it](https://openthings.live/things/) [03 updated 24 oct 20267 min read what collapses ## what collapses. 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. anshuli written 23 oct 2026 - read it](https://openthings.live/collapses/) [04 written 26 oct 202612 min read the agent web ## the agent web. 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. anshuli written 26 oct 2026 - read it](https://openthings.live/agent-web/) 05 being written upcoming ## humans and tech. 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. anshuli coming soon coming soon 06 being written upcoming ## where we are. what 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. anshuli coming soon coming soon every take has a markdown copy for agents, in [/markdown](https://openthings.live/markdown/). then ## read one and disagree with it. that is the point. [message @anshulix on x](https://x.com/anshulix) [read what is next](https://openthings.live/next/)