Signals from Our Futures Past

Signals from Our Futures Past

Hypermedia is the missing control surface for AI

Clear affordances deliver reliable agents.

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Mike Amundsen
Feb 16, 2026
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Recently I found myself circling back to a familiar corner of web architecture, one we tend to visit only when something breaks. Hypermedia. Not as a style preference, not as an academic footnote, but as a practical mechanism we quietly removed and are now scrambling to reintroduce under different names.

The timing matters. We are no longer designing API…

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