Opinion
What you think. Why you built it, what everyone else gets wrong, and where this goes next. Developers choose the product with a point of view.
Writing for developers. And their agents.
Opinion, explainers, tutorials, and guides, written for the humans and machines that ship code.
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import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts"; const agent = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.AGENT_KEY);const payees = new Set([process.env.QUOTES_WALLET.toLowerCase()]); const client = new x402Client() .register("eip155:8453", new ExactEvmScheme(agent)) .setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" }) .onBeforePaymentCreation(async ({ selectedRequirements }) => { const payTo = selectedRequirements.payTo.toLowerCase(); if (!payees.has(payTo)) return { abort: true, reason: `Unknown payee ${payTo}` }; }); const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);const res = await payFetch("https://api.example.com/v1/quotes");01 / 05
Give the agent its own wallet
Every payment gets signed with this key, so don’t give the agent a wallet with anything else in it. Set up a new one and fund it with only what you’re happy for the agent to spend. It doesn’t need any ETH either. What the agent signs is an authorization to move USDC, and a facilitator submits that on chain and covers the gas.
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“Can't recommend Argot enough. They have deep technical knowledge—you get authentic, developer-to-developer material that adds value. They can write thought-leadership just as well as technical content, which is very hard to find. Responsive and never miss a deadline.”
Thought for developers
Developers are working at a higher level of abstraction. They need the why and the what more than the how.
How we workExplainers
What you know. Intuition from your years on the problem, set out so developers learn from the subject matter experts.
Tutorials
What you do. A real build, start to finish, so developers see what’s possible before they decide what to build.
How-to guides
How it works. One problem and how your product fixes it. Enough to trust it with their problems.
Run by agents
Agents are doing the how now. They need it exact, short, and working the first time.
how-tos.md
How it works. An agent hits one problem mid-task and needs it fixed now. The exact fix, runnable as written.
tutorials.md
What you do. An agent using your product for the first time has only your tutorial to go on. Every step runs in order.
explainers.md
What you know. An agent choosing an approach needs the concept in its context.
opinion.md
What you think. When a developer asks their agent what to use, it answers with what it has read.
Blank page, rough draft, or no plan yet?
We write from scratch, fix what you have, and work out what to publish next.
Writing
We write with a terminal open.
A tutorial that doesn’t run is worse than no tutorial. An essay by someone who’s never used the product isn’t far behind. We install it, build something with it, and write from there, how-tos and essays both.
Editing
Cut the slop from your drafts.
You should use Claude to write. You shouldn’t publish it straight from the LLM’s mouth. We edit both strategically (is this an accurate thesis?) and tactically (is this an AI-ism?) to make it worth reading.
Strategy
SEO. AEO. GEO. LEO. Wait, that’s satellites.
To be used, you must be found. Whether that’s by a human, a chatbot, or a coding agent. We work from your briefs or prepare our own based on the best keywords, questions, and prompts to get you ranked, cited, and picked.
Written to be found, read, & run
Five rules every piece follows, from the first outline to the final edit.
Why before how
// Agents can handle the how. Your content has to answer why.
Written for two readers
// A developer reads it to decide. An agent reads it to act. If either can’t follow it, it isn’t ready.
If it's written, it runs
// Every snippet and command on the page has run in a terminal.
Models draft, people finish
// LLMs are great for getting ideas down, not out. Taste is still human.
Clear beats clever
// Anyone (and anything) can be clever; writing has to be clear to be useful.
Notes on technical writing
Mostly about writing. Increasingly about agents.
Developers who can write, we pay you to
Who pays technical writers? We do. Send a few links to technical writing you are proud of, with bonus points if you built the thing you wrote about.
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