Writing

Essays on autonomy and the work of the laboratory, written by Thomas Guthrie.

• 24 May 2026

  Decades, not quarters

  The long view is not modesty. It is the most aggressive claim we make.

• 10 May 2026

  What benchmarks cannot see

  The properties that matter for autonomy are invisible to single-exchange evaluation.

• 19 April 2026

  Coordination is an organizational problem

  Multi-agent systems fail the way organizations fail, not the way programs fail. That is good news.

• 5 April 2026

  What Verse is teaching us

  Lessons from the laboratory's first company that have held up long enough to become principles.

• 22 March 2026

  The supervision spectrum

  Autonomy is not a switch. Knowing where a system honestly sits between autocomplete and employment matters more than what it can do.

• 8 March 2026

  On tools

  Tools are where intelligence stops being commentary and becomes labor.

• 23 February 2026

  Agents need time

  Intelligence measured in seconds and intelligence sustained over months are different things.

• 9 February 2026

  Trusted with outcomes

  Trust is not a feeling about a system. It is a property of the structure around it.

• 26 January 2026

  Why a laboratory and not a company

  There is no product. The companies have products; the laboratory has a thesis.

• 12 January 2026

  Capability is not autonomy

  On the difference between what a system can do and what it can be left to do.