This is the story I want to be true, that somewhere in the system there's a protocol that's exactly so many bits and no more which worked fine for when it was designed, and AI slop masters rolled up and starting shoving JSON over that infrastructure.

I will laugh my ass off if the infrastructure only gets upgraded due to six months of whining by the AI crowd overpowering the last decades of all the first hand human reports from people who work in/with/around the ATC system. Here's hoping we eventually get a congress stupid enough to fall for the arugment that all our crumbling bridges need to be rebuilt because we can't transport heavy AI equipment over them.

I also hear that for AI to streamline the healthcare system that we need more rural hospitals and more pay for nurses. Likewise AI can't bring the cost of education down without paying teachers more. We can't get AI to the schools unless every school is connected to a high speed top of the line fiber network!