Tag Archives: Agentic AI

The Ghost Economy: What Happens When AI Agents Run Everything and Nobody Gets Paid

Somewhere in the world on St Patrick’s Day, a man used an AI agent just called 3,000 Irish pubs and asked each one the price of a pint of Guinness. Now the pubs are lowering their prices to compete. It did this in the time it takes you to read that sentence. Nobody hired it. […]

The Day AI Died—and Nobody Noticed

TL;DR AI didn’t fail. The story we were sold did. We were promised a world where intelligence becomes cheap, abundant, and universal—where AI sits in front of us, ready to serve. But every product that forced humans to interact with AI directly has quietly failed. Because humans don’t want intelligence.They want outcomes. The future of […]

The Ghost Internet

There is a scene from one my favourite animations of all time ‘Toy Story’ — if you watched the film, you know it without being told — where the moment the Andy leaves the room, the toys come alive. They walk, they argue, they have entire political crises involving a plastic dinosaur and a one-eyed […]

Shopping Bots Will Do the Clicking So You Don’t Have To: Andreessen Horowitz’s Latest Bet on Human Laziness

Shopping Bots Will Do the Clicking So You Don't Have To Andreessen Horowitz's Latest Bet on Human Laziness

In the peculiar tradition of Silicon Valley venture capital, where the most mundane human activities are inevitably reimagined as “trillion-dollar market opportunities,” Andreessen Horowitz has unveiled their latest thesis: AI x Commerce. This represents their belief that artificial intelligence will fundamentally transform how we shop, from product discovery to evaluation, timing, and purchase completion. The […]

USB-C for Your Soul: Silicon Valley’s Latest Plan to Outsource Your Brain to the Cloud via MCP

a digital caveman banging rocks - an illustration of what it's like to not know about MCP Model Context Protocol

Warning: This article may contain traces of truth. Consume at your own risk! TechOnion Labs – In a move that surprised absolutely no one who’s been paying attention, Anthropic has introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), heralded as the “USB-C for AI” that will finally make artificial intelligence useful – or at least that’s what they […]