Spent today at MIT’s Open Agentic Web conference. Six things worth thinking about.
We're in the DNS era of agent infrastructure. Before agents can find and trust each other at scale, you need identity, attestation, reputation, and registry infrastructure — the same structural role DNS played before search was possible. This came up independently from multiple directions. It's the most underbuilt layer in the stack right now. The chatbot framing is a local maximum. The most interesting work wasn't better UX or smarter responses. It was agents as persistent actors that discover, negotiate, and transact across networks over time. People doing serious work have already moved past the assistant model entirely. Coordination is the hard problem, not capability. A room full of brilliant agents can still fail badly. This matches what I found running HiddenBench against frontier m...
