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(9 posts)→
More from Venture
- He gave his AI agent a phone number and email — then hired it as social media manager — heyshrutimishra · 2026-10-27
- Firecrawl launches Alexandria company-data API and announces $75M Series B — devdigest · 2026-10-27
- Anthropic S-1: Over half of $100K+ customers now use both Claude platform and first-party apps — RebeccaBellan · 2026-10-27
- Codex clones Linear's core from a one-page spec in 3 minutes 28 seconds — aakashgupta · 2026-10-27
- Five weird details from Anthropic's S-1 IPO filing — The Verge AI · 2026-10-27
- YC F26's EveryApp wants to open-source every business app; OpenSEO already at 24k stars — ycombinator · 2026-10-27