THE UAF INDEX

Economy

Autonomy

When the demo stops being the moat

Dan Greenheck’s reflection on Astra and Three.js work is a small record of a larger shift: visible demos are becoming cheaper, while judgment, maintainability and trust remain harder to automate.

Economy

The agent economy begins with task crossover

The early economic signal from AI agents is not that jobs have vanished. It is that tasks are crossing occupational boundaries. Workers are using AI to do pieces of work that were previously outside their formal role, then some of those pieces become recurring responsibilities.

Policy

Agent procurement is a policy decision

Buying an agent is not only buying software. It is choosing a provider’s defaults for memory, data retention, tool access, oversight and incident response. Procurement

Economy

GPT-5 made the workplace claim explicit

OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch placed AI inside a familiar economic story: organizations were giving workers direct access to increasingly capable systems and imagining new workflows

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