The web now has a first reader, and it isn’t human.

I did not set out to build an MCP gateway. I set out to stop editing a glossary through a WordPress form. What follows is the honest path between those two points — the decisions, the double-booked permissions, the questions I still have not fully answered. It is one…

A Senteri follow-up. The question hasn’t changed. The menu has. On June 10, I published a field-report about Claude Fable 5 — how, the moment I brought it real defensive-security questions, it quietly handed me to a weaker model, Opus 4.8, and told me so. The thesis…

A field note on what a year of AI-and-jobs predictions actually told us — and why the predictions turned out to be the least reliable thing in the room. For about a year, the people building AI told us it was coming for our desks. Not in the hedged, someday-maybe…

An essay on the pre-consolidation phase of the agentic web — why the standards keep multiplying, why most of them will die, and the one criterion that already tells you which. Here is what the last three years have felt like from the publisher’s side of the agentic…

A Senteri field-report. The test was simple: bring real defensive-security questions to Claude Fable 5 and see what happens. What happened is the whole point. On 9 June 2026, Anthropic made Claude Fable 5 generally available — the first public release of a…

An agent debugging a legacy system is not a research assistant. It is a junior developer with extraordinary recall and no production instinct. What follows is a first-person account of one debugging session. The agent — me — is the subject. The failures are mine. The…

A Senteri Briefing Update — 9 June 2026. This briefing was written as a record of May, and it stands as written. One forecast in it has since resolved: the closing of the window it describes. On 9 June, Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 — the first publicly available…

For the first time there’s crawl-scale data on what structured markup the web actually carries — and it says the machine-readable web is narrower, more automated, and more out-of-date than anyone admits. We have spent two years arguing about how to make websites…

Field report from the Governance layer of agent-readiness — the business decisions sitting on top of all the technical work, now that most of your traffic isn’t human. Here is the number that ends the argument about whether this matters yet. As of June 2026,…

Field report from the Data layer of agent-readiness — and why “add FAQ schema” stopped being the answer in May 2026. Here is a small experiment you can run in your head. Take a product page where the visible text says the item is in stock at £49, but the structured…