Entering The Architecture Age (blog.mempko.com) AI

The author argues that most modern software is built like a “pyramid” of layered abstractions, and that LLMs mainly extend on top of this structure rather than changing its underlying architecture. They predict competitive advantage may shift as software complexity hits LLM context limits (“window tax”), and propose looking to earlier object-oriented ideas inspired by messaging in systems like Smalltalk and the internet. As an alternative foundation, they describe an “Ask Protocol,” where software objects communicate by sending an “ask” message in natural language and dynamically generating the needed glue code, illustrated with calendar-email integration. They also mention building a system called Abject (AI Object) around this approach.