mewwts: agentic micropayments fail on supply-side economics, cloud runs on committed spend
mewwts · x · 2026-09-07
Responding to WillPapper's UX argument, mewwts laid out his core bearish thesis on agentic micropayments: it's an economics problem that doesn't work for the supply side. In a follow-up he noted that cloud revenue is dominated by committed spend, which conflicts with request-time payment models.
Related event: Developers Debate Agent Micropayments: Economics or UX Problem(8 posts)→
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