https://ucp.dev/ looks an awful lot like the first step towards Economics 2.0

The egregore accelerates...

A Google API?

Yes in sense of agents to talk to agents. AI talks to another AI. Out with the humans.

At the time I read the story, Economics 2.0 and its effect on humans that installed the upgrade paralleled with some stuff I had read about sociopathic behavior. Stross later wrote about the same ideas in Rule 34.