Customers like dumb pipes, but pipes don't like to be dumb.

· Bits and Bobs 5/26/26
  • Customers like dumb pipes, but pipes don't like to be dumb.
    • If your service is a dumb pipe, then users don't think about you at all.
    • You're just an implementation detail.
      • Below the API for the user.
    • Something that the user hasn't built up a relationship or trust with is much easier to swap out.
    • Silos, who used to render the pixels, making themselves increasingly dumb pipes for agents is ceding a lot of power.
      • I don't know what else they would do, of course.
      • You can't stop a steamroller.