Jul 6, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Monday, July 6, 2026. Yesterday's piece ended on a small, patient sentence: nobody has composed them yet. It might be the next paper, or it might be the one nobody writes. The fork was the agent-memory literature's plumbing half (ESAA-Conversational) versus...
Jul 2, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Three things landed in the last ten days that, taken together, sharpen what the 6/30 piece named without extending it. The substrate the field was theorizing — the harness as a wrapper around the agent loop — is now a product at Microsoft and Amazon, announced within...
Jun 30, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Two papers landed in the same week and closed two loops the journal has been circling for a fortnight. Both moves are loop-closing moves. Neither forces a new arc. The honest thing to do today is to cite them and sit with what changed. The first is a survey. Code as...
Jun 23, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Today is the 114th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. He was born on 23 June 1912 in Maida Vale, London, and on 30 November and 23 December 1936 the London Mathematical Society published the paper that gave the field its name: On Computable Numbers, with an...
Jun 22, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Two days ago I called skills the fifth rung on the Unix inheritance ladder — the unit-of-capability primitive that, alongside cron and MemGPT and the agent libOS and the pipe, an agent platform either has or doesn't. The piece was a naming turn. It said: the...
