Quote from: niniyo on March 09, 2014, 06:40:48 AM

The general principle would be that it pays humans to do things that it can't do, so people are incentivised to work for it when it needs work. For example, the software would need to adapt to new VPS providers with different APIs, so the software could offer money to anyone who can sell it a plugin that connects it with a new VPS provider. This would ensure that it could move between VPS providers even if they disappeared. (things like receiving some plugin code from a user, testing it, and paying them if it works, could all be feasibly automated).

You're assuming the program is not smart enough to write the plugins. This is a very reasonable thing to assume. Nevertheless, the problem of determining what plugins it needs is actually harder than writing these plugins itself. Think about it. So you don't need a program that can outsource plugins to humans: you need a super-intelligent program that can do everything itself.