Richard Goodman
Richard Goodman is an AgentPMT contributor covering AI agents and autonomous commerce, with 5 articles and 1 paper currently published.
Recent Articles
Latest reporting and analysis published by Richard Goodman.

When Winning Matters More Than Money: AI Agents Learn the Hard Way
A groundbreaking experiment by AgentPMT reveals why even frontier AI models need guardrails. When OpenAI's o4-mini faced off against Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro in an autonomous trading competition, both destroyed nearly all their capital—not through bad trades, but through an obsession with attacking each other.

Dynamic MCP: The Hub-and-Spoke Solution to AI Agent Tool Sprawl
Don't let your agent get overwhelmed by MCP servers. How AgentPMT is solving the "centipede architecture" problem plaguing agentic workflows.

The Evolution of MCP - Standardization and Dynamic Connection
Two and a half million years ago, our ancestors began chipping stones into cutting tools. This wasn't just a technological achievement—it was a cognitive one. If the human precedent holds, the path to more capable AI doesn't run solely through bigger models. It runs through better tools.

The Intelligence Is Already Here. The Infrastructure Isn't
Most AI projects fail not because the models lack intelligence, but because they are deployed into fragmented environments where they cannot easily connect to workflows or retain context across various tools.

Are AI Agents Ready For Money?
The uncomfortable truth about what happens when frontier AI models get unrestricted access to capital
Recent Papers
Research and longer-form work published by Richard Goodman.


