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An open source PR is now a donation in two currencies: code, and the LLM tokens that produced it. I figured this out the slow way, needing to patch a Go CLI in an hour, in a language I don’t write. In a previous era, this is where the story ends: file a feature request, hope someone with the right neurons gets bored on a weekend, or shrug and ship a workaround. Instead, in one hour with Claude Code, agents inventoried the upstream, surfaced three reference implementations that had already solved the underlying problem, located the right hook in 1,200 lines of Go I’d never seen, and wrote the patch. Along the way I (or they, really) noticed 22 other forks of the same project, only 4 of which had ever shipped a contribution back. I almost became the 19th wheel-reinventer. Instead I filed the patch back upstream with a working PoC. ...

ERC-8004 just went live on Ethereum mainnet, and for the third time in six weeks something ships in agentic commerce and I end up writing about it. (I managed to resist when Coinbase launched x402, so at least there’s some self-control left.) But the pace itself is the story: MCP, UCP, ACP, ERC-8004, x402, all reaching production between late 2025 and January 2026. Eighteen months from “agents can use tools” to “agents have passports and bank accounts.” That’s genuinely unusual for standards work. ...

My feed did it again. Third time in six weeks: something launches in the agentic commerce space, the usual suspects celebrate, and I find myself writing about it. In late December I published an architecture for agentic travel distribution that I’d been designing for months; that one was proactive, and the reactions suggested it resonated. Then Google launched UCP two weeks later, and I wrote about what travel needs from it. Now ERC-8004, the Ethereum standard for “Trustless Agents,” goes live on mainnet, and my timeline is a chorus of people announcing that AI agents finally have identity, reputation, and wallets. (I managed to resist when Coinbase launched x402, so at least there’s that.) ...

Building a corpus that remembers Where does your thinking go to die? Mine dies in several places, and I suspect yours does too. Chat sessions with Claude that end and take context with them. Bookmarked articles I’ll “read later” (I won’t, and we both know it). Screenshots of whiteboards rotting in my camera roll because I told myself I’d transcribe them “when I have time.” Notes emailed to myself, now buried under seventeen newsletters I also meant to read. PDFs downloaded with great intentions, never opened again. The article I know I read about that exact topic, somewhere, unfindable when I actually need it. ...

A follow-up to “Why your AI travel agent can dream up the perfect trip but can’t book it” I published that article on December 29th. Two weeks later, back at my desk with inbox overflowing, I find that Google has launched the Universal Commerce Protocol, co-developed with Shopify, Walmart, Target, Etsy, and Wayfair, and endorsed by twenty-plus others including Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe (apparently I wasn’t the only one busy during the holidays). Their roadmap explicitly mentions “Travel, Services” as upcoming verticals. ...

And how the infrastructure we’ve been building for 2.5 years might finally make it possible It’s December 2025, and AI agents are everywhere. ChatGPT plans your honeymoon to the Maldives. Claude designs a three-week backpacking itinerary through Japan. Perplexity finds you that off-the-beaten-path trattoria in Bologna. Then comes the moment of truth: “Book it.” And the magic collapses. Your agent stutters. It can’t actually check if that boutique ryokan has availability. It hallucinates a confirmation number. It sends you to Booking.com, which means starting the search all over again. Or worse: a Spanish influencer couple recently missed a flight because ChatGPT incorrectly advised them they didn’t need a visa for Puerto Rico, without mentioning the ESTA. The AI was confidently, dangerously wrong. ...

💪 🦾 Excited to share Alexio’s announcement of #MindStream, FairMind’s groundbreaking AI solution for enterprise software development. MindStream addresses critical challenges in software development, reducing project failures by 40% through better business-IT alignment. It enables enterprise-wide adoption of GenAI coding tools while maintaining corporate standards, offering a seamless experience along the whole ideation to development lifecycle, and blending open and commercial models utilization under the hood. As AI Architect working closely with enterprise clients at FairMind, I see immense potential in MindStream for rapid solution prototyping in both startups and established companies, particularly for materializing and testing novel use cases on the field, or for exploring the utilization of new tech stacks like blockchain. A fascinating example of this potential is MindStream itself, which was developed using early versions of itself - a perfect example of “eating our own dog food” combined with our team’s innovative approach and of course our secret sauce. ...

📍The early bird catches… two events in Barcelona. Just landed 🛬 in #BCN for a 2-day including 1-nighter trip to catch up and participate in #tourism #innovation. First stop: FutureTravel Summit to to connect with travel innovators, startups, investors, and executives to discuss what’s next for the industry. Meet you there in a bit! Second stop: #TechTourismGames hackathon within the Grup CETT Smart Tourism Congress, to witness innovation being built live on two tracks: Artificial Intelligence and Decentralization, and their fusion to implement Smart Tourism. I’ll be there mentoring the teams from tonight nonstop to tomorrow evening. ...

📍 In Turin for Italian Tech Week This year’s September is really packed with events and one has to choose 🙂 🇮🇹 The Tech Week won over coinciding ETHMilan this time around. I’m here to hear about the State of #AI and #startup scene: shout out to all my Torino-based network and to whomever happens to be in town, ping me and we can meet over ☕ at the #OGR. I’ll be mostly hovering around the event engaged in 1-on-1s or hunched over my laptop doing the same, as we’re converging towards ...

🚀 Web3 & AI Day 2023 by IKN Italy is just around the corner, don’t miss the event dedicated to the best practices for using these technologies now matured from buzzword to industrial adoption. I’ll talk about “Trip3” a.k.a. how Web3 and AI are being applied right now to reinvent the travel industry. 🪙 The token as supercharger of touristic assets and enabler of novel customer journeys: in destination, online, in the metaverse. 🧳 The use case of loyalty in travel: widespread, federated, IRL. 💡 Blockchain and AI as ingredients to facilitate transactions in a supply chain as “scattered” as the one of travel: integration, contracts, payments, and settlement. ...