Andrew Ng Just Killed the AI Wrapper Startup Era. And He Did It on Purpose.
Andrew Ng’s open-source agent isn’t just another wrapper — it’s a strategic weapon that commoditizes the entire agent orchestration layer. By giving away the glue code, Ng forces value back to underlying models and proprietary data, killing the moats of thousands of AI startups. Developers’ cynicism is validated: the real innovation isn’t in wrappers.