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smart contracts the misnomer joke writes itself




just means self executing, or more like domino triggered, in practice

quite a bit more advanced than contracts that do nothing on a sheet of paper, but the term is from 2012 or so when "smart" was appended to everything digital


Now we just append AI to everything instead...

thats actually a good idea agentic contracts

or web3 agents

just for their self executing properties not because there are any transformers involved

although a project could just build a backend that decides to use some of their contract’s functions via an llm agent, hm that might actually be easier and fun than normal web3 backends

ok I’ll stop, back to building


just be glad they were named before the AI hype was around



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