Every major platform shift created a new class of developers.
App Store → mobile devs. AWS → cloud architects. Agentic AI → tool builders.
But we've been thinking about open-source monetization wrong.
The answer was never "build a SaaS around it."
It's making the tool itself the revenue unit and having it get paid every time an agent calls it, automatically, at scale.
This is a new economic primitive and the engineers who start building for it today are writing the infrastructure of the next decade.
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