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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.