Google’s “Opal” Isn’t Killing the Glue Factories

Vibe-crafting a prototype doesn't mean you can replace the plumbing.

The breathless X posts and “AI Insider” newsletters proclaiming Google’s new Opal tool as the “Zapier-killer” are analytically lazy. It’s a classic case of tech-hype myopia: seeing a shiny new object from a Big Tech company and immediately assuming it must replace every adjacent, established tool.

This is a fundamental category error. Comparing Opal to t…