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  • Nobody Knows What an Agent Is and That Is the Problem February 19, 2026

    A diagnostic framework for practitioners building production agent systems. Warren Weaver’s 1949 three-level communication framework maps onto the three engineering requirements an agent must satisfy to project intent past the first point of contact with the world: a Semantic Processing Unit, a Memory System, and a Harness. Most of what the industry currently calls “agents” are actors; sophisticated stateless ones whose agency terminates at delivery. Until we own that distinction, we keep building Level B solutions and calling them Level C achievements.

  • Google Didn't Go Silent. You Stopped Looking. January 29, 2026

    A response to Delanoe Pirard’s “Transformers Are Dead” and “A 170M Model Beats GPT-4.” Titans wasn’t a standalone architecture. It was the first chapter of a seven-paper research program that redefines neural computation as nested optimization. The code was never released because you cannot ship a paradigm that requires infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet.

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