Archive - The Intent Layer

41 Curated Talks on Agentic Engineering

Below is curated set of 41 talks on agentic engineering, spanning foundational concepts, architecture patterns, the verification problem, context and…

Aug 9 • Matt Trifiro

July 2026

Cheap to Build, Expensive to Keep

The new economics of software in an age of effortless creation.

Jul 20 • Matt Trifiro

Organized Panic, Standardized Systems

How a nineteenth-century kitchen offers a blueprint for modern software

Jul 16 • Matt Trifiro

Decoding the AI Cost Curve

A framework for understanding what actually drives spend once automation reaches millions of users.

Jul 13 • Matt Trifiro

The AI Cost Black Box

Why most companies have no idea what their AI spend is actually buying.

Jul 11 • Matt Trifiro

Jevons Was Right About Your Token Bill

How cheaper models manufacture demand you didn't plan for.

Jul 10 • Matt Trifiro

Model Arbitrage

Once model routing becomes table stakes, the advantage shifts to knowing the cheapest execution path that reliably clears each task’s quality, latency…

Jul 9 • Matt Trifiro

Pricing the Prompt

AI broke the assumption that cost lives in the infrastructure layer

Jul 8 • Matt Trifiro

You Were the Scheduler

The next productivity leap comes from designing loops, not juggling workers.

Jul 3 • Matt Trifiro

June 2026

Build the Product an Agent Can Operate

Why the next great software products will be built for machines that act, not humans who click

Jun 30 • Matt Trifiro

Model Arbitrage: The New AI Margin Game

The durable advantage is knowing, task by task, how far down the model stack you can go before quality breaks.

Jun 30 • Matt Trifiro

Why Every Lab Is Building a Coding Agent (And None of It Is About Code)

Frontier labs are betting on code as a proxy for general computer use, aiming to automate all knowledge work, not just programming.

Jun 29 • Matt Trifiro

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