My, how things have changed. View quoted note →

Wisp went from zero to my daily driver in under a week.

I built a map to track AI agent infrastructure—how open it is and how that changes as the stack takes shape. Five layers, compute to payments, 33 companies scored against a rubric (“Can you use this without one company's permission?”). Scores live in a database so we can see how things move over time. The whole thing is open source.

Sideband Lab

Agent-Era Infrastructure Map | Sideband Lab

Who

I'm probably wrong about some of it, and 33 is just a start. Suggest a company or challenge a score:

GitHub

Build software better, together

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

WIP

Balajji predicts the end of the West almost as often as China bans Bitcoin.

Who controls agent payments? A force simulation of the three-way gravitational fight between state regulators, card networks, and open protocols.

Sideband Lab

Agent payments have a three-body problem | Sideband Lab

Who controls agent payments? A force simulation of the three-way gravitational fight between state regulators, card networks, and open protocols.

🟠 GDP is experiencing degraded performance

Sideband Lab

U.S. GDP Status | Sideband Lab

What if LLM uptime was a macroeconomic indicator? A status page for the economy, where the components are AI providers and the metric is GDP.

Thought I saw a lobster. The mind virus is real. View quoted note →

If I ever make a shock face YouTube cover card, take me out back and shoot me.

The political class is cultural enshittification.

Wisp is fast and and highly responsive. Features come and go. Smooth like butter never goes out of style. Bravo, @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻.

I'm I remember when a declaration of war required Congressional approval years old.

OH: slop cannons.

WIP

The fall of the United Soviet Socialist California is gonna be lit.

PC Gamer

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

It

Yeah, I know. Substack. I held out, but here we are. Turns out it's hard to beat for just getting words in front of people. Sideband is where I'm collecting my thinking on AI agents, infrastructure, and the questions that aren't getting enough attention yet about control, trust, and money. New pod on the way Soon™️.

Sideband | Shawn Yeager | Substack

What breaks when the user isn't human? What gets built instead? Sideband decodes agentic AI. 30 years launching frontier tech—from browsers to Bi...