Something has been nagging at me since I built the AgentVista prototype. I built it as a capability proxy, a single endpoint where autonomous agents can acquire real-world capabilities at runtime. Send an SMS. Host a file. Create a payment link. No pre-configured credentials. No developer account. Pay with a crypto wallet, get a result. The architecture felt right. Then I started pulling on a thread that complicated things. Will this layer need to exist independently?...

I’ve been spending the last few days thinking my way through a prototype called AgentVista. I say “thinking my way through” because that’s really what it was — less coding, more chasing a question that kept evolving. It started simple: what would a directory of MCP servers look like for agents? It ended somewhere more interesting: a permissionless capability proxy, USDC micro-payments, and a conversation about how existing digital identity infrastructure — built for payments — might be exactly what autonomous agents need for accountability....

There’s a question I keep turning over lately, and I don’t think the software industry has seriously grappled with it yet. When you sit down to design a feature, a new workflow, a data view, an integration point, who are you picturing on the other end? A person, presumably. Someone with a mouse or a thumb, a screen, a tolerance for loading spinners, a preference for dark mode. You’re optimizing for their cognition, their attention, their patience....

Today was my last day at Interac. After years of working in and then leading enterprise architecture in Canada’s fintech space - managing a team of architects, navigating the kind of organizational complexity that makes your brain feel like a browser with 200 tabs open, I walked away. Not because something went wrong. Because something finally went right in my thinking. This post is the first entry in what I hope becomes a long and honest chronicle of what comes next....

In 2026, nobody talks about the weather anymore. They talk about their token burn rate.

I built a website that updates itself every day, with no human in the loop. It scrapes YouTube videos and web articles, transcribes audio, extracts mentions of AI tools using a language model, scores them, validates them, generates a daily summary, builds an HTML page, runs a QA agent to check its own work, fixes what it finds, and pushes the result to a git repo that auto-deploys to aitoolz.info....

This post is base on the talk, “Good Enough” Architecture • Stefan Tilkov • GOTO 2019 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEox3szeRc “Just Enough Architecture” — an approach to software architecture that strikes a balance between over-engineering and under-designing. The central message is that architecture should be deliberate, flexible, and context-sensitive. Architects and teams must continuously evolve their systems in response to changes in scale, complexity, and organizational structure rather than adhering rigidly to initial designs or popular patterns....

Behold my first text-to-video masterpiece from July 2023. I made this with modelscope and stable diffusion. I created the video locally on my PC. Keep in mind that this was just around 9 months ago. Compare this to the new AI generated videos (February, 2024) : Yes - that’s all AI generated video, generated by OpenAI’s new Sora model. (I may have also added a soundtrack created with Suno AI.)...

I’ve been keeping a blog over on github, writing daily updates of a deep dive into artificial intelligence. But who reads blogs on github? And although I am now a prolific Threads poster (or is it a Threader?), I felt like an actual blog would probably be a better mechanism for my blabbering into the Internet void. So here we are… And this is my first post. “The future happens slowly and then all at once....

The caring question. This last one is newer to me, and I want to handle it carefully. Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate, godfather of the field, a man who has spent three years warning about existential risk, has been making a striking argument, most recently on CBC’s IDEAS and at DiscoveryX in Toronto. Control, he says, won’t work. Anything smarter than us will find its way around our rules. The only precedent for a less intelligent being reliably influencing a more intelligent one is a baby and its mother....