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agentic marketplace at @kong • builder and enjoyer of systems & frameworks • prev API Network @getpostman; co-founder/CEO of @OrbitModel (acq by Postman)

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined May 2009
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A big question in agentic commerce: if coding agents are going to become buyers of software, who decides what's on their shopping list? I ran 215 trials and watched. Turns out the modes have some pretty entrenched favorites, even when told to shop around.
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I asked coding agents to shop for software. They brought their own shortlists.

I asked Codex to add one-sentence summaries to an empty Next.js app. Five times, it just yeeted a local summarization function without using an AI provider or asking anything at all. Then I ran the

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When you ask an agent to build something without specifying which services to use, how does it decide? I ran an experiment with Claude Code and Codex. Turns out a lot of the provider decision happens before the agent ever short-lists suggestions.
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What happens when you don't tell an agent which provider to use

In a recent exploration I asked Claude Code for the cheapest AI provider and ended up with this idea: optimization is downstream of choice-set formation. Before an agent can pick the best option,

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Agentic commerce assumes agents shop. I tested Claude Code: “use the cheapest AI provider” chose Anthropic 5/5 times. Only when told to compare providers did 4/5 leave Anthropic. Optimization, at least here, is downstream of choice-set formation.
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I asked Claude Code for the cheapest AI provider. It optimized before it shopped.

I'm gonna be digging into this, and started with a simple question: if you ask Claude Code to add AI to an app, what does it choose, and how much does that choice change when you tell it what to

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From Agora to Agents

At 3:17 a.m., lights dance across a server rack in Virginia. An agent wakes with a mandate: procure weather data for a logistics application. Within seconds, it must discover which providers cover the

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AI Can Write for You. It Can’t Become You.

Thin creation, and the outsourcing of formation I've been writing more over the past couple weeks, playing with Obsidian + Claude Code along the way, and thinking a lot about this question. Joan
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