Half LabsField notes from product and engineering work.
Crypto may not be AI's native currency.
Markets keep reaching for crypto as default agent money. That assumption needs more pressure.
TUI is a walk backwards in product design.
Text interfaces feel new again because graphical software became too slow to express intent.
The significance of crypto in asset pricing mechanism.
Crypto matters most when it changes how assets get priced, not when it copies existing wrappers.
Will distillation block the path to AGI?
Distillation makes models cheaper. It may also smooth away the strange edges that teach us what scale discovered.