Most Layer 1s were implicitly designed around human driven usage. Demand was expected to be spiky, latency forgiving, and sessions short lived. If something went wrong, operations teams, social coordination, or manual intervention filled the gap. AI systems reverse these assumptions. They operate continuously rather than episodically, expect predictable execution rather than best-effort throughput, and treat infrastructure as embedded rather than experimental. This shift has nothing to do with headline TPS. It has everything to do with how a system behaves under sustained coordination, where edge cases are discovered early and repeatedly rather than hidden by bursts of hype-driven activity.Most Layer 1s were implicitly designed around human driven usage. Demand was expected to be spiky, latency forgiving, and sessions short lived. If something went wrong, operations teams, social coordination, or manual intervention filled the gap. AI systems reverse these assumptions. They operate continuously rather than episodically, expect predictable execution rather than best-effort throughput, and treat infrastructure as embedded rather than experimental. This shift has nothing to do with headline TPS. It has everything to do with how a system behaves under sustained coordination, where edge cases are discovered early and repeatedly rather than hidden by bursts of hype-driven activity.Most Layer 1s were implicitly designed around human driven usage. Demand was expected to be spiky, latency forgiving, and sessions short lived. If something went wrong, operations teams, social coordination, or manual intervention filled the gap. AI systems reverse these assumptions. They operate continuously rather than episodically, expect predictable execution rather than best-effort throughput, and treat infrastructure as embedded rather than experimental. This shift has nothing to do with headline TPS. It has everything to do with how a system behaves under sustained coordination, where edge cases are discovered early and repeatedly rather than hidden by bursts of hype-driven activity.