At every level—Application > Framework > Infrastructure > Hardware—layers wrap around each other. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, for example, build their models on frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow, supported by hardware giants like NVIDIA, AMD and Intel, which in turn depend on manufacturers like TSMC.
This intricate web of dependencies is, at its core, just technology wrapped around technology, ultimately revealing that even the most sophisticated AI is but a sophisticated wrapper around the human experience.
This notion feels both unsettling and undeniably true.
Recently, Plotch.ai CEO Manoj Gupta shared this perspective on LinkedIn, emphasising that as we layer technology over existing structures, each layer ultimately wraps around the previous one, adding function but concealing the foundational core.
“ONDC is a wrapper around apps. Agentic Mesh can be a wrapper around ONDC,” Gupta explained, shifting commerce from rigid API calls to fluid, conversational commands.
Wrappers, Everywhere
“Wrappers are at all levels; it’s just that they have given you so much value that you do not care,” said…