Autonomy isn’t about convenience — it’s about survival. Every dependency becomes a chokepoint, whether it’s TSMC for chips or Google for frameworks. I’ve seen too many projects die because a foreign API shut down or a library maintainer ghosted. Real engineering means owning the stack, from silicon to software, because when the border closes, excuses don’t ship code. We spent decades copying to catch up; now we copy to pretend we’re still behind. A fully autonomous system doesn’t beg for permissions. It just runs.
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