Mark Pesce

Another successful Saturday putter, adding some very 2026 features to some very old hardware. The combination of Claude Code and open source brings 'dead' devices back to life... From 2012 - 2014 I ran MooresCloud, a startup designing and manufacturing internet connected lighting. Our first product, "Holiday"

Gresham's Law and the Fungibility of Tokens Mark Pesce · University of Sydney · April 2026 A brief exploration of the economics of 'good enough' tokens - Foundations of Post-Watershed Economics provides background on the topics covered here. Abstract Frontier AI tokens are fungible across a large and

Dropping a new paper this morning - if your eyes start glazing over, here's the tl;dr: The cost of cognition has collapsed - economics and business urgently need to reorganise activities around that reality. Have a read - very interested in your feedback! Mark Crossing the Watershed Foundations of Post-

Easter Holidays gave me an opportunity to dive into a project I’d come across a few months before - and it fully demonstrates the unfolding agentification-of-all-the-things… zclaw puts a powerful agent “harness” on an ESP32. If you haven’t heard of the ESP32,, it's

At the recent Homebrew Agents Club, I had a conversation with a friend deep in a startup. "We're pay $100 a month for Xero - it's just not doing the job for us, and we're not getting the support we need. So we built

From the moment we're born, we operate in a field of minds. We come into contact with minds, communicate with minds, change minds, and have our minds changed by theirs. Contact, impression, communication: it all happens so regularly and so ceaselessly we never notice it until it disappears

This essay came into form over several months, beginning with 'when it changed', moving on to what it all means, and, finally, what is to be done... Gradually, then Suddenly The day I met Vernor Vinge we went to dinner in the company of my good friend David

Hello, folks. It's been a while. This 'monthly' newsletter took a break late last year, and just sort of never came back. It never will. 'The Good Thing' was a great way to keep people connected to interesting things. It's no longer

Three wonderful things to read this week Eight Software Markets that AI Will Transform Differently A well-considered and very welcome read: Software is produced in at least eight distinct markets, each with different constraints, different demand elasticities, and different relationships to the factors that AI coding actually changes. Predicting