It's funny how history repeats. The web originally grew because it was a way to get "an API" into a company. You could get information, without a phone call. Th

It's funny how history repeats. The web originally grew because it was a way to get "an API" into a company. You could get information, without a phone call. Then, with forms and credit cards and eventually with actual API's, you could get information, you could get companies to do stuff via an API. For a short while this was possible. Now everybody calls this abuse. And a lot of it is abuse, to be fair. Now that has been mostly blocked. Every website tries really hard to block bots (and mostly fail because Google funds their crawler millions of dollars while companies raise a stink over paying a single SWE), but it's still at the point that automated interactions with companies (through third-party services for example) are not really possible. I cannot give my credit card info to a company and have it order my favorite foods to my home every day, for example. What AI promises, in a way, is to re-enable this. Because AI bots are unblockable (they're more human than humans as far as these tests are concerned). For companies, and for users. And that would be a way to ... put API's into people and companies again. Back to step 1.