Walled gardens are a tourniquet: platforms must ship agents, models, or become infra
yenkel · x · 2026-10-01
- yenkel argues walled gardens are only a short-term tourniquet in the AI age and won't be viable long term (e.g., Salesforce blocking Slack data access).
- Platforms face three paths:
- Ship your own agent (e.g., Amazon's Muse)
- Ship your own better model
- Become infrastructure
- Figma's MCP release makes the question urgent.
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