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  • The Economics of Bad AI
    On token budgets, substrate investment, and why HITL costs are conveniently absent from the P&L.
  • The Boundary is the Product
    On the line between mechanical and neural
  • Output is not Signal
    On OpenClaw, the iceberg of tacit knowledge, and which incompleteness you can live with before an agent is truly useful.
  • Context vs Knowledge Graphs
    Knowledge graphs masquerading as context graphs, why retrieval-augmented agents fall apart at the seams, and the tri-temporal substrate hiding underneath.
  • The Case for Context Graphs
    Why the discussion around ontologies, context graphs and structural truth isn't hype — it's the inevitable next step in making agents actually useful.
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