These past few months I've been leaning heavily into AI tools, and honestly the shift is massive. Had a really interesting conversation about this with one of the NEAR ecosystem's key figures, and the takeaway stuck with me: 2027 is the inflection point. That's when AI breaks through into everything—protocols, dApps, user experience, infrastructure. Right now we're still in the early stages of figuring out how artificial intelligence actually integrates with blockchain systems. But once you start thinking about autonomous agents, smarter contract logic, and AI-driven onboarding, you realize we're staring at a completely different paradigm for Web3. The combination of these two forces—decentralization and machine learning—could reshape what's possible.