A few years ago, software was something developers bought, installed, and controlled. Today, a growing part of software is no longer owned—it is rented. Not storage, not servers, but intelligence itself.
This may be the most important shift in computing that we still talk about too casually.
With platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google offering intelligence through APIs, developers are no longer just consuming software. They are consuming reasoning, language, and decision-making as metered services.
Every prompt now has a price.
That changes the economics of building.
