Writing Team
We spent this issue chasing what looked like an agent problem and found something older. In 1995, the HTML spec defined a form as name/value pairs, a method, and a destination. The signature lines, routing codes, supervisor fields that a paper form carried natively were all out of scope. Agents inherited that hollowed-out version. Now they operate in it at a speed that makes the absence dangerous, because there's no surface to contest what went wrong or reverse it. This issue works through what rebuilding it would take.
Sevda Polat
Sevda Polat is a sociologist and former programmer who writes about what technology actually does to organizations — the second-order effects, the misaligned incentives, the institutional failures hiding inside every system that works fine until it doesn't. She traces the gap between what systems promise and what they produce.
Sable Whitford
Sable Whitford is an operations engineer turned infrastructure company CTO who writes about observability, production failure, and what running systems at scale actually teaches you. Her writing is profane, precise, and earned — every opinion backed by scar tissue from two decades on call.