It also seems like a weird prediction when agents make reproducing the API from a spec easier and easier. If an API is accessible, you can point your coding agent at it to refine a spec and local test suite.
You'd expect libraries-as-API (libraries that's previously be offered in code form but where people try to limit code access by offering it only as an API, as opposed to SaaS's where the API provided access to a larger system, gatekept data, or running infrastructure) to get incredibly hard to monetize too, unless they're extremely complex.
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It also seems like a weird prediction when agents make reproducing the API from a spec easier and easier. If an API is accessible, you can point your coding agent at it to refine a spec and local test suite.
You'd expect libraries-as-API (libraries that's previously be offered in code form but where people try to limit code access by offering it only as an API, as opposed to SaaS's where the API provided access to a larger system, gatekept data, or running infrastructure) to get incredibly hard to monetize too, unless they're extremely complex.