Isaac Liem · Essays

An agent can finish a computation and leave the actual question unresolved.

Ask a model the same question five times and it will either answer five ways or one way.

An agent that cannot pay for itself is a toy.

Writing was invented by accountants, not poets, the moment amplified trade outran witness.

For thirty-four days, everyone from an anonymous Redditor to Mark Zuckerberg converged on the same architecture for personal AI.

One who holds evidence in trust for another.

The last piece argued that an agent's accumulated record is load-bearing and asked you to take a metaphor's word for it.

In April someone gave the third layer of the agent stack a name.

The part you recognize a thing by and the part that makes it durable are almost never the same part.

I run every session with permissions bypassed.

There is a room under every life now.

A ledger is a record.

How I'm using the protocol I built to prove I built the protocol.

AIP is the receipts layer for autonomous agents.