Series
AI Agent Pitfalls
From demo hype to PMF: real traps in Agent startups, memory design, and job displacement.
5 articles in this series
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AI 1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0: Mapping the Agent Economy with the Web 1.0 → 3.0 Framework
Agent Economy: when agents gain memory and multi-step autonomy, humans, firms, and agents all become economic actors. This piece maps AI 1.0…
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The AI Agent Hype Trap: 95% of Projects Still Don't Make Money
Agents that demo beautifully often fail the business test: who pays, how much, and which cost line moves? MIT NANDA's 2025 enterprise survey…
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AI Agent Builders Are Falling Into a New Kind of Vanity Trap
MIT NANDA finds 95% of enterprise GenAI spend shows no measurable ROI. Agent demos look like digital employees—but mistaking "I can build it…
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Are AI Agents Crypto's Ultimate Users?
Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan argues crypto was built for AI agents—not humans. Permissionless rules, transparent contracts, and 24/7 execut…
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Teaching Agents to Forget: Why Unlearning Beats Remembering
When autonomous agents can't store all history, selective forgetting prevents long-horizon drift. Research commentary on memory architecture…