The Half-Life of Tooling: A Startup Note on the CPU Convergence
Hammad Tariq: AI Agents, Identity & Systems
Recent posts
ICLR 2026: Memory Is the Substrate
I came to ICLR looking for memory systems.
Your AI Agent Just Installed a RAT
Last Monday I quote-tweeted Feross’s alert about the axios compromise and wrote:
Beyond Prompts: Why Agents Need Policy as Code
Generative AI changed the interface to software.
Portable Agent Identity (PAI): An Implementer’s Profile for RFC 9421 + Web Bot Auth
For a non-technical introduction to why agents need keypair identity over OAuth/OIDC, see Why Keypairs Beat ‘Login With X’.
Portable Identity for Agents: Why Keypairs Beat ‘Login With X’ (Web Bot Auth, OAuth, OIDC)
For the full technical profile covering RFC 9421 wire format, verification algorithms, JWKS discovery, and key lifecycle, see Portable Agent Identity (PAI): ...
PageRank for the Agentic Web: Separating Authority from Selection
A couple of days ago, I tossed out a thread on X about what I’m calling “PageRank for the agentic web.” It started simple: a user tells an agent, “buy 12 egg...
Altered States and Generative AI: Toward Human-Centered Creativity Amplification
I’ve been thinking about a strange gap in how we approach AI creativity.
Web Bot Auth After Montreal: The Power Shift We Shouldn’t Ignore
I spent the last few days sifting through the recordings of IETF 124 in Montreal. I was particularly interested in “web bot auth” related sessions. What star...
From ‘Trust Us’ to ‘Prove It’: A Confidential Lane for AI Inference
Most AI inference today runs on policy and promises: “no training on your data,” “short retention,” and so on. That’s fine for low‑risk use. But as prompts s...
Why Am I Building Another Auth Project
The Odyssey-and-Faceplant of “MCP Auth” Startups
Secure Ollama & vLLM in 60 Seconds: OIDC + A2A Auth with Attach Gateway
“Auth is a TODO, feel free to PR.” — every GitHub thread on local LLM stacks, ever!
AI Will Finish What Crypto Started: The Post‑Scarcity Pitch
Scarcity has a cost and we pay it in human life terms.