The Most Useful Line on Your AI Cost Report Is the One You Can't Explain
Attribution, allocation, and why "unknown" belongs in the schema. This piece grew out of a comment thread on Sarvar Nadaf's Per-Agent Cost Tracking…
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Hash-chained revenue: why your agent payments need provenance
Every x402 settlement you have ever seen was, until recently, opaque. The merchant told you what they earned and you either trusted them or did not.…
Your data model is where uncertainty goes to die
The sensor knew how much to trust itself. Our database column did not have room for that, so we threw it away on the way in. Everything arrives with…
De-identification Protects Your Name. It Doesn't Protect Your Idea.
Imagine you spend a year on the hardest open problem in your field. You feed every draft, every dead end, every 3 a.m. "wait, what if" into the codi…
Don't trust model quotes; use anchors instead
I asked models to extract facts with provenance two different ways. Naive: return {answer, quote} , insist the quote is verbatim, then string-match…
A Context Object Should Carry Its Receipt
A stored fact can be wrong in a quiet way. The answer still reads clean. A preference from an old exchange gets reused, the message goes out with co…
Provenance Belongs in the Image Table
A generated image looks finished until review starts. Someone approves the first version. Someone else crops it. A branded copy goes out. Another ed…
Row and Field-Level Data Provenance: Why It's Worth the Pain (and Where the Pain Is)
Most "data lineage" you've seen answers a schema question: table B comes from table A , or column B.total comes from columns A.price and A.qty . Tha…
The Execution Trace Is the Unit of Agent Trust
You cannot verify, price, or claim on an agent from its model card. You can do all three from a faithful record of what it did. What the 2026 resear…
The New Information Borders
Recently I came across a discussion about AI crawlers and robots.txt files. The conversation centered on a simple question: Should website owners al…
OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models
OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.
Anthropic Named Their Models After Poetic Forms. I Think They Accidentally Mapped the Human Brain.
A 3am theory about cognitive architecture, Kahneman, and why I always reach for Sonnet. Kahneman's Two Systems Daniel Kahneman spent decades studyin…
For Londoners, a Roman Bridge Still Determines Your Commute
Around 50 CE, give or take a few years, a group of Roman military engineers picked a spot on the River Thames and bridged it. They picked the place…