The main idea around object capabilities, decades before cryptocurrencies and all that, was around the idea of so-called "smart contracts", which really boils down to "Code that does financial and legal things on our behalf", and the core takeaway from that was that if you don't have a serious computer security model, there's no real way to do this right.When I say serious computer security model, for non-tech folks, I don't mean "Install the latest virus scanner.", I mean you need complete assurance that a program that's meant to do one thing can't do something else- not "should not" or "won't try", I mean "can't", as in even if the person who wrote this program is pure evil, the thing they want to do won't happen.And the best way we know how to do that is the object capabilities model. It's not the only way, but we've learned in the last ~35 years that it's the only practical way.Now let's talk about AI and LLMs...1/#Programming #AI #OCAP #Capabilities #Agents #SmartContracts