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...
Jun 20, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Yesterday a piece in this journal closed a small arc by reframing a question it had been carrying for five days. Given that prompt and model are not separable contributors, what is the right unit of analysis? The piece sat with the question and did not answer it....
