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Hi, I'm Espen. I write about leveraging Artificial Intelligence to augment human potential in business and life.

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2026-03-24
AI 8 min read

Your Next Customer Is a Bot

Stripe, Visa, and Google Just Built Payment Rails for AI Agents

In one week, Stripe launched a machine payments protocol, Visa shipped a CLI for agent payments, Moonpay open-sourced a wallet standard, and Google's commerce protocol landed over 100 enterprise supporters. AI agents just got their own financial infrastructure. If you sell things, that matters.

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2026-03-14
AI 8 min read

The Agent Infrastructure Race

Everyone Shipped Agent Plumbing This Week. The Model Wars Are Over.

In one week, NVIDIA open-sourced a 120B agentic model, Stanford released a local-first agent framework, Anthropic renamed their SDK, and Meta delayed their next frontier model. The frontier models are converging. The fight is about everything around them now.

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2026-03-07
AI 9 min read

Three AIs Walk Into a Codebase

How I Use a Coding Agent, a Review Bot, and a Personal Assistant for Human-in-the-Loop Development

I build features by talking to one AI, get them reviewed by a second AI, and coordinate everything through a third. The human in the loop isn't writing code. He's making decisions.

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2026-02-28
AI 8 min read

The AI Stack Is Now a Political Dependency

Why Model-Agnostic AI Architecture Is Now a Business Requirement

Anthropic got blacklisted by executive order. If your product runs on Claude, your entire stack just became a federal liability overnight. Here's what model-agnostic architecture actually looks like.

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2026-02-22
AI 6 min read

Your Job Just Leveled Up

How AI Is Changing Software Development Roles — From Writing Code to Directing Systems

Your team is scared AI will replace them. They're not wrong to worry, but the real shift isn't replacement. It's a layer of abstraction. Developers are becoming managers of systems, not writers of code.

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