business-models

How AI capabilities reshape the economics of building and selling software. Coverage spans the strategies companies use to capture value, from open-core and paid tiers to subscriptions and usage-based pricing, and how coding agents and capable models erode assumptions like artificial scarcity. Expect practitioner analysis of which revenue models hold up when AI can replicate features cheaply, and what founders should rethink before betting a company on them.

coding-agents, open-source, business-models, ai-development

Two Hours to Mass Extinction: What Coding Agents Mean for the Open-Core Business Model

How a coding agent turned a capped open-source project into its full-featured paid equivalent in under two hours — and what that means for every company betting on artificial scarcity as a revenue model. It started with a monthly bill. I was evaluating a self-hosted communication platform — the