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Pieces
26
This year
17
Essays
24
Span
2005–26
2026 17 2025 5 Earlier 4
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2026

17 pieces
25 Jul

Where Reciprocity Stops

The Layer 8
21 Jul

The Compiler Forgives. The Loop Forgets.

The Layer 8
19 Jul

The Wallet in Your Pocket Now Holds Your National Identity

The Layer 8
11 Jul

Wrappers, Not Records

The Layer 8
2 Jul

When the Customer Is Software

The Layer 8
27 Jun

When GCCs Stop Counting Heads

The Layer 8
14 Jun

The Sovereignty Test Europe Hasn't Finished Yet

The Layer 8
31 May

Beyond Commerce

The Layer 8
30 May

Agentic Observability: Seeing Is Not Stopping

The Layer 8
29 May

Why AI Agent Authority May Survive Long After Permission Ends

MediaNama · Op-ed
28 May

Exit Is the Primary Agentic Right

The Layer 8
23 May

Dashboards Were the Last Central Planner. Context Windows Are the Next.

The Layer 8
22 May

The Sovereign Handoff

The Layer 8
12 May

Building the Signature Surface

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3 May

Where Delegation Stops

The Layer 8
26 Apr

Signed Truth

The Layer 8
25 Apr

The Intent–Execution Gap

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2025

5 pieces
28 Oct

India’s Centralisation Migraine: When Tech and Finance Crush Federalism

The Layer 8
15 Aug

The Emergence of the Context Engineer

The Layer 8
26 Jul

Beyond Intelligence: The Architecture of Memory

The Layer 8
26 Jul

From Intelligence to Infrastructure: The Rise of Modular AI Enterprises

The Layer 8
30 Jun

The Frontier in AI Isn’t Intelligence — It’s Memory

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Earlier

4 pieces · 2005–2022
2022

UPI security needs a bug tracker

The Layer 8
2020

Internet saga and the Indian state

The Layer 8
2016

How we can keep the future open

The Layer 8
2005

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