#16 Cooking in production 🧑🍳🥘 | Open Markets Podcast
Eric FJ and Sync cook both the podcast and the Open Markets specification in production, testing a tighter show format while exploring how AI agents, open-source implementations and real market adoption could evolve a shared protocol without a central gatekeeper. Next Open Markets Community Call ! 17th September 16:00 UTC https://honey.hivetalk.org/meet/login?room=Open+Markets+Hivetalk No guest this week: Eric FJ and Sync open the workshop doors and work through changes to the podcast and the Open Markets project in real time. They begin with a new hybrid Value for Value format designed to keep episodes shorter without losing the community that supports them. From there, the conversation turns to the larger experiment: replacing a traditional top-down specification process with a pull-based model that learns from software already running in production. The proposed workflow uses agents to scan participating open-source marketplace clients, identify their supported Nostr kinds and NIPs, compare implementation differences, flag interoperability problems and produce public reports. Humans still provide intent, judgment and coordination, but no single maintainer becomes the protocols benevolent dictator. The communal specification is distilled from what builders actually ship and what multiple clients prove works. The episode also covers why pull requests remain valuable as early signals, how Conduit uses spec-driven agentic development, the shift from NIP-15 toward NIP-99, funding agent services with sats and L402, expanding Open Markets beyond e-commerce, and the p...
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