u can now request tools/APIs that you'd like your hermes/openclaw/claude code/codex agent to have step 1: go to step 2: put your phone # in step 3: an agent will call u. pick up and pitch your idea step 4: start using tool after it's built

slopped up a new site to track which agent companies are trending upwards by google searches, and why check it out @ (job postings for each company also included)

ATTENTION ALL GENERALIST SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, MIDDLE MANAGERS, BACK-OFFICE EMPLOYEES, NEW GRADS, OR COLLEGE STUDENTS!!! i want to help u escape the permanent underclass. i did some research to figure out which jobs aren't being replaced by AI, so here they are -- aggregated across every job/career site & updated daily 868 fresh job listings identified in the past 36 hours

my agent fucked up halfway through buying something today so it: 1. found another provider 2. bridged my payment to a different chain to match 3. finished the order without asking me While having it research & buy for me is cool in itself I'm honestly most impressed it could route around something breaking that cleanly. I did this in Poncho but you can give any agent the same shit by adding AgentCash

my time at @artemis has been by far the most formative chapter of my career learning from amazing founders and working with teammates i love is something i’ll always be grateful for. thank you @jonbma and @anthonyyim for the opportunity and for many other things, especially giving me the freedom and confidence to follow my curiosity about agentic payments, even when no one had any idea what they were that interest has since turned into an obsession, and has opened up the door to my next chapter -- i’ve joined @merit_systems !! i've spent the past 6 months building conviction in agentic commerce, filtering through the data, mapping the market, and writing theses. i've watched x402+mpp go from 0 to 180M+ agentic payments. i've watched the merchant supply side compound from under 100 to over 5.5K merchants. i’ve spoken with almost 100 teams building the infrastructure, tools, and services agents will need through all of this, 3 things have been made clear to me: 1. micropayments will fuel the next iteration of the web (the agentic web). the current business model of the internet is breaking and needs to change. 2. open protocols will win. walled gardens can't serve the long tail, and the long tail is where the most interesting use cases of the agentic web will live 3. Merit Systems is one of the few teams that understands what’s necessary for the agentic web to 1000x, and they’ve been tackling each challenge head on -- from tracking activity, to aggregating x402/mpp resources, to building the gateway into the open agentic web if u want to get a taste of the open agentic web, i recommend u check out btw, i'll be focused on expanding the merchant side, so if you're building a product that u want to make accessible to agents, hmu (i can help) agentic commerce is coming.