by lukasz | Jul 6, 2026 | Essays
A field note in three failures: a page component that tells AI readers a falsehood, a review that graded the wrong document, and a fix that committed the mirror image of the bug it was fixing. All three happened on this site, to me, within six weeks. The principle...
by lukasz | Jun 10, 2026 | Essays
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...
by lukasz | Jun 8, 2026 | Essays
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structured markup the web actually carries — and it says the machine-readable web is narrower, more automated, and more out-of-date than anyone admits.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...
by lukasz | Jun 7, 2026 | Essays
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,...
by lukasz | Jun 7, 2026 | Essays
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...
