For years we've treated "time" in blockchains as an annoying implementation detail--something to be tolerated rather than trusted. Blocks come when they come. Fees spike without warning. Transactions can be reordered by whoever pays the most. To an AI agent trying to reason about the world, this isn't just noise; it's existential sabotage.
Every jitter in block production, every sudden fee surge, every MEV-induced reordering forces the agent to tear up its mental model of reality and start over
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For years we've treated "time" in blockchains as an annoying implementation detail--something to be tolerated rather than trusted. Blocks come when they come. Fees spike without warning. Transactions can be reordered by whoever pays the most. To an AI agent trying to reason about the world, this isn't just noise; it's existential sabotage.
Every jitter in block production, every sudden fee surge, every MEV-induced reordering forces the agent to tear up its mental model of reality and start over