There's something pleasingly self-referential about configuring an agent by talking to it.
> Remember that [fact about data formats].
Agent: Noted.
... realise nothing happened ...
> Write to your rules file that when I say "remember", I want you to write to the rules file.
Open source can be used by companies to commoditise complementary products. It makes sense for them.
There's nothing stopping others doing the same though! You run the risk of others trying to commoditise your value add.
I wonder if this has happened?
The "Rule Of Least Power" makes a great argument in favour of less computationally capable languages. It claims this helped HTML/CSS adoption.
https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html
Applying this principle, I'd expect total languages to be popular. This hasn't happened AFAICT: what's missing?
