[jongjong]

My experience tells me that the world of atoms requires a perfectly level playing field in order to support reliable businesses. The world of atoms is inherently stochastic with many unexpected events. We cannot plan for the future if the government intervenes in the markets. It's hard enough to plan for 'natural' events. We shouldn't also have to worry about the thousands of ways in which the government could destroy the incentives and dynamics that are vital to your business. In the world of atoms, failure incurs high costs. Whenever you opt for value creation as a business, you put yourself at the mercy of government policies because the government, through monetary policy, can distort markets in extremely harmful, unpredictable ways.

[ehnto]

This is true for even regular software APIs. By all accounts, we could have a beautifully interwoven quilt of standardized APIs that connect any system to any other system with ease.

But business realities mean that just cannot exist, it actually doesn't survive first contact with business logic let alone all the auth* issues. An atomic level of interoperability will hit this issue immediately.

If they are seeing AI as a sort of fuzzy connector between components, it is a non-starter from my perspective. Even if you had squishy brains doing the work, it wouldn't pan out.