In the new AI era, I keep telling software engineers the same thing: Become multi-threaded. Get comfortable with context switching. For years, engineers optimized for “deep focus,” while managers protected their time to keep them in the zone. AI changes that. The best engineers now orchestrate multiple streams of work simultaneously, delegating execution to LLMs while continuously reviewing, steering, and adapting. Context switching is mentally exhausting. But like any skill, it can be trained. Start building it now, and you’ll be unstoppable.

Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Dr Balakrishnan casually explaining how he built his own AI agent (a 2nd brain for diplomacy) using Claude & WhatsApp integration etc. on a Raspberry Pi “You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” 🇸🇬

we just shipped interactive onboarding on agentic(.)market simulated terminal walks you through what x402 actually feels like. wallet check, service discovery, payment, results. in this demo the agent finds an a16z article behind a paywall, pays dripstack $0.01 in USDC, and pulls back a summary. no subscription, no API key, no credit card. when you're ready to try for real, copy the SKILL.md and paste into codex, claude, hermes, whatever you're building with.

💳 @programmer: "AI is about to break the internet's economic model." The x402 founder talks why agents ignore ads, and the $3-5T agentic economy that needs micro-transactions. On the @Anchorage Digital Mainstage at @consensus2026.

Headed to @consensus2026 next week! To celebrate x402 turning 1, code x402 takes 40.2% off for the next 40 people 👀 Grab your ticket: All of my sessions:

🎙️ COBUILD: @programmer, Head of Engineering at @CoinbaseDev and creator of x402, on what it actually means to win in payments infrastructure: technology so good it disappears ↓

There will be a predicted $3-5 trillion in AI transactions by 2030 - and we’re building for all parts of that payment flow. The numbers don’t lie: the agentic economy is arriving faster than anyone predicted.

i got a better breakdown of the SpaceX/Cursor deal than any single article i've read. cost me $0.01 and 90 seconds. the web was built to keep bots out. paywalls, CAPTCHAs, OAuth. so when your agent tries to research something, it hits walls everywhere. browsed agentic(.)market this morning, found @ExaAILabs on the services leaderboard. neural web search, pay per query, no account needed. pointed my agent at it in Claude Code. one query. $0.01. 10 full articles from Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, NYT. what it found: SpaceX didn't acquire Cursor. they secured a $60B call option, exercisable by year-end, with a $10B breakup fee. the real motivation per Bloomberg: xAI lags in coding and Musk wants to catch up to Claude Code and Codex. this is an xAI play wearing SpaceX's jersey for the IPO. full walkthrough in the video (which is longer than the e2e research exercise!)

💎NEW SPEAKER ALERT FOR COBUILD💎 @programmer, the Head of Engineering at @CoinbaseDev @coinbase and the Creator of x402, is joining us to talk about the future of agentic commerce. 📆 April 28 🗽 NYC

11 months ago we were hacking on a random idea about moving money on the internet. Now we have legendary companies and industry leaders supporting this open protocol. This is a huge win for open standards. Ever since I got addicted to stumbleupon back in my youth, I’ve known open = better. There’s no better way to build a tech that lasts, adapts and wins.