Dispatches from the agentic frontier — short, sourced, and opinionated. Agentic coding, MCP, dev-tool UX, and the market forming around all of it.
A payments giant just acquired the routing layer that sits between apps and every major model. Follow the metering, and you can see the shape of the agent economy's billing rail.
Lifelong CLI devs are noticing whole workdays without a shell. The tools replacing it look less like editors and more like control rooms.
A dozen directories bloomed; a handful will matter. Where the Model Context Protocol ecosystem's money layer still hasn't shipped.