A Primordial Computing Soup

The author argues that AI and protocols can combine into many distributed "brain-and-fabric" ecologies that could eventually form a planet-scale computing system. Two examples are given: TITLES, a generative art platform that fine-tunes models on individual artists' work and lets users sample them together with attribution and profit-sharing, and the Yak Robotics Garage project, an open network of rovers that uses MCP, ERC 8004, LLM agents and the x402 protocol to discover, command and pay for robotic services. The author contrasts this open, messy robotics marketplace with the closed, integrated approach of vertically integrated robotics companies, and predicts tens of thousands of such ecologies will form over the next decade.