It's not the imagery that's really important, it's tracking the who+when+where.

That should be the much more important story that NBC follows up on...

With fake bot streams it is pretty clearly stealing from the other artists who would otherwise get a greater share of the royalties pool. I see your point, but I really have to stretch my imagination to call them morally equivalent.

In terms of choosing the con, the guy calls himself a musician so he probably just fell into it. I bet there was a slippery slope effect: use bots "just a bit" at first to juice the algorithm for his own real songs. Then dabbling with AI generation to tweak the algorithm more, oh the royalty payments feel good, maybe a few more bots...

The problem is that this was hard to enforce, so now they have changed the law to something much simpler: if any corporate officer or beneficial owner is a resident of California, then the business is subject to Californian taxation.

It doesn't say SaaS is being replaced by agents, rather that SaaS companies will be transformed in the way described. Outsourcing will still happen, hence the discussion of headless components, and the continued demand for SaaS.

And part of the argument is that we won't just be waiting for the new breed of LLM-native companies; lots of existing businesses are being LLM-ified right now, through the process described in the article...

But I believe a premise of the article is that AI-ification will disrupt the power of those middle managers, probably in a few different ways.

One is that the middle managers themselves will be replaced by AI. Another is that more purchasing decisions will be made by engineers building the corporate harness on the buyer side. And, probably people will be more accustomed (i.e. forced) to talk to AIs on the other side, or at least accept that the responses are ultimately constrained by them. Going out for a round of golf with the sales guy just can't accomplish anything anymore.

Every exec team wants this transition to happen, so both buy and sell side will go through great transformation in concert.

The LVT assessment doesn't have to consider whether it is a "desirable place to live" or what the neighbors are like. Only the potential for the land.

A key factor in LVT is the local control of the process. That is the part that can be more easily swung by coalitions with money/power.

Software allows us to push computation (intelligence) into our environment.

Salt is another one. Used to be payment for Roman soldier, now you can just take it from a McDonalds if you want.

Seems like we can have an abundance of software.

With the plain ol' API solution, you still need some way for agents to fetch the instructions provided by the service. Of course there are answers for this, but they are not standardized.

With MCP, all you have to do is provide the harness with a single URL and all context can be bootstrapped the same way for every service.