I asked my agent to fetch me a blog post. It found the server down, read the version out of the headers, broke in, patched the box, and brought the site back up. That story is invented. Every step in it has already happened, and the pattern underneath is not what most people think it is.

Everyone says their app or product is becoming AI-native. Almost none of them can say what that means. Here is a test you can run in a roadmap meeting, the reason a chat window does not pass it, and a plain guide to the three protocols now fighting over how an agent hands you back an interface.

I went to Japan to give two keynotes about the Agent-First Era. Japan ended up giving the keynote back to me. We decided to turn the trip into something bigger: Tokyo, then Hakone, up into the mountains to Takayama, on to Kyoto, and finally Osaka. Shinkansen platforms, ryokan dinners,