If Mastercard and Visa are doing something like this I know it'll go nowhere and die slowly.

They're so full of internal committees I can't imagine this goes anywhere by itself.

The terminology for visa's "Agentic Ready" is "controlled production environments" which is corporate for "we made a press release"...

Bullish on Stripe's MPP - that one has legs.

In the dogpatch maybe?

Uh what is dogpatch?

Are we in a bubble here?

Gifting credits to a prospect, a new hire, or an enterprise running a POC is like giving away productive capacity with an obfuscated dollar value attached - hidden behind a credit.

I wrote about it too as part of my notes on AI led growth https://arnon.dk/notes-on-ai-led-growth-alg/

Found a base we already knew was there - it's been disclosed at least as early as 2016 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/climate-change-cold-war...

It always seems like the security are afraid to tackle the thieves in the shops. Every second visit to a shop in London, I see someone shoplifting and getting away with it.

There's a common practice in the US of letting shoplifters "get away with it" while compiling detailed records and evidence of their crimes. The idea is to let them keep stealing until their accumulated thefts cross the dollar figure that turns the whole thing into a felony.

Could a similar thing be happening in the UK?

I wonder if OpenAI will build their own or go with a really big enterprise billing solution coupled with their own home-built metering setup

> I know roughly the quality of what I expect to get

because you know the brands and trust them, to a degree

you have prior experience with them

I suggest we go back to before and be human about things - and build trust in-person.

Dunbar's number leaps to mind. I wonder what our systems look like at large when we have cause to strengthen our 150 meaningful connections.

Would this truly be a move back? I've met people outside my social class and disposition who seem to rely quite heavily on networking this way.

This is exactly the reason

Human biological limits prevent the realization of stable equilibrium at the scale of coordination necessary for larger emergent superstructures

Humans need to figure out how to become a eusocial superorganism because we’re past the point where individual groups don’t produce externalities that are existential to other groups/individuals

I don’t think that’s possible, so I’m just building the machine version

This resonates with me.

I'd love to see the machine version or hear more of your thoughts about what goes into it.

If you’re really interested at the furthest depth then take a look at my paper:

https://kemendo.com/GTC.pdf

If that resonates further let me know at my un on icloud domain

Thanks, I will read. I haven't considered what it's like to be interested at the furthest depth, but I will do that now.

Thanks! Happy to answer and questions you have or if you have any feedback I’m open to it

This is childish thinking. Whatever we do, we cannot go back to "before". Which "before"? How do we go back?

You can't regress back to a being a kid just because the problems you face as an adult are too much to handle.

However this is resolved, it will not be anything like "before". Accept that fact up front.

Unfortunately there’s no “roll back to last stable” - the current version is actually still the most stable

If you try to “go back” you’ll just end up recreating the same structure but with different people in charge

Meet the New boss same as the old boss - biological humans cannot escape this state because it’s a limit of the species

that's exactly my point - yes

you need to prove beyond a doubt that YOU are the right one to buy from, because it's so easy for 3 Stanford dropouts in a trenchcoat to make a seemingly successful business in just a few days of vibecoding.

> 3 stanford dropouts in a trenchcoat

I'm using this

please do, i've been forcing it on people for a year now

You're right - it isn't

This is just how I write in the last few years

> This is just how I write in the last few years

"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us", may be the apposite bon mot.

That aside, I did enjoy your article. Thank you.

You might have become too much like a marketing bot, sad to say.