← Frank He

Questions

Things I'm thinking about and don't have answers to yet. When one gets answered, it moves toPredictions or an essay.

Last updated September 2026

Technology

  1. What is the right unit of identity for software that can copy itself?
  2. How should an agent prove what it did to someone who wasn't watching?
  3. How much of AI's cost curve is really an energy and cooling curve?

Industry

  1. When will agent-initiated transactions outnumber human-initiated ones online?
  2. Will agent infrastructure consolidate the way cloud did, or stay open the way the web did?
  3. Which incumbents' moats depend on a human being in the loop?

Economy

  1. What does credit look like for a borrower that isn't human?
  2. If agents can sign contracts, who carries the liability?
  3. What happens to pricing when the buyer is a machine that compares every option?