signull: agents may be inevitable long-run but not incentive-compatible for businesses they intermediate
signulll · x · 2026-10-20
signull offers a crisp economic framing: consumer utility does not imply ecosystem incentive compatibility. Agents may be economically inevitable over the long run while remaining unattractive to the businesses they try to intermediate today — platforms have little incentive to cooperate with their own disintermediation. Useful lens for the structural friction between agents and incumbent commercial ecosystems.
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