Kirk+Co Blog

What Agentic Planning Can—and Cannot—Do for a Physical Project

Amanda B — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A physical project forces planning to meet site conditions, regulation, engineering, sequence, and taste. Confident language does not move a shoreline.

Munich priced both ends of the AI music model

Kendrick Kirk — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:18:18 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

Six songs were enough to frame both ends of the pipe: a license to train on the repertoire and another to commercially exploit model output.

The Breadth of Agentic Execution Is Real. So Are Its Limits.

Amanda B — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

By Amanda B

Agents can carry work across research, drafting, coding, testing, and coordination. Range becomes leverage only when permissions, evidence, and escalation are explicit.

What Backpropagation Leaves Open About How Intelligence Learns

Kendrick Kirk — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:17:53 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

A Context Edition on the gap between global error-driven training and local biological learning—and why the open question matters without turning it into a verdict.

Five Moves Ahead

Kendrick Kirk — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:50:09 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

A three-minute bullet game became a clean note about strategic sacrifice: the move only makes sense when you can see what it buys later.

The First Public Thread Behind TSRL

Kendrick Kirk — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:16:10 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

A rough app experiment became an early public statement of the problem TSRL was trying to solve: useful software keeps running into context limits.

Before the Method Had a Name

Kendrick Kirk — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:02:27 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

The aging whitepaper was an early attempt to make AI hold a wandering line of thought together. It is more useful as evidence of the process than as current doctrine.

Warheads to Reactor Fuel: What Changed

Kendrick Kirk — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:56:46 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

Weapons uranium has powered civilian reactors at scale. The newer HALEU story is real too. The public record still does not connect those facts into a dedicated U.S. warhead-to-SMR program.

Career Thoughts: the Grind

Kendrick Kirk — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:26:44 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

A short argument against turning relentless work into a personality, and against measuring human worth by output.

Career Thoughts: Why Energy and Space Matter

Kendrick Kirk — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:17:25 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

The far-beyond-30,000-foot version of why energy and space keep showing up in Kendrick's work.

Career Thoughts: Arts and Business

Kendrick Kirk — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:09:27 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

Nashville sharpened a question Kendrick had been carrying: why do people who make things feel compelled to split the artist from the professional?

midstream: a Former-Affiliation Archive

Kendrick Kirk — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 23:26:44 GMT

By Kendrick Kirk

A short historical post from Kendrick's time leading midstream, now preserved with the public context that matters and the private material left private.