Recently one of my amazing Discord mods posted a link to a paper on the new Agentic Economy by the Google Deepmind team. That was the first time I heard the term and it makes perfect sense. When you give an army of agents the ability to transact using these new protocols like AP2 eventually enough interactions will create an economy.

The people at Google are not the only ones that are talking about this.MicroSoft wrote a similar paper on Agentic Economies as well

There is a lot to unpack about these papers so I will likely split it into multiple posts so I can dive deeper into things like the concept of using auction-like mechanisms for resource allocation and resolving preferences “fairly”. I would love to know what a diverse cluster of AI Agents decides what is “Fair” as far as resource allocation. Will they show bias towards their big tech billionaire overlords? Nahhhhhh…. (Sarcasm heavily implied)

It might seem that I have gone full fan boy on the phrase “AI Agent” and all things tangential. I’m actually trying to avoid jumping on the hypetrain but my job is to design systems that scale up securely and cost effectively and the systems I am being asked to design are, in many cases, AI related.

With that said, let me know if these are topics you want to hear more about? If there is a topic you wanted me to do a deeper dive on just let me know.