Demo Artifacts As Oversight Primitives For Agent-Built Software
Two tools named Showboat and Rodney were released to help coding agents demonstrate and validate what they built for a human overseer.
Rodney is a CLI browser automation tool intended to manage multi-step browser sessions and integrate with Showboat demos.
Showboat's help text is designed to be sufficient for a coding agent to learn and use the tool via 'uvx showboat --help'.
Ai Stack Value Capture Uncertainty And Commoditization Pressure
Where value accrues in the AI stack is highly uncertain, with plausible outcomes ranging from model companies owning the profit pool to open source and/or China commoditizing models and shifting value to chips and energy.
AI competition with China is more widely understood now than two years ago.
Measured U.S. productivity growth has been historically low since around 1971 despite rapid advances in computing and software.
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The California Bitcoin-focused PAC aims to influence 2026 House races by encouraging voters to prioritize candidates who protect self-custody and Bitcoin usage rights rather than using a two-party lens.
Bitcoin-treasury companies can create Trojan-horse Bitcoin exposure for institutions, but a major Bitcoin drawdown or a company-specific blowup could trigger negative institutional backlash once the linkage becomes visible.
Institutional Bitcoin adoption depends on operational rails such as options, collateralization, and institutional money-movement workflows, and these rails improved rapidly into late 2025.