https://www.hatch.org/tags/agent-economics/ Recent content in Agent-Economics on Steve Hatch's Blog Hugo en-us Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hatch.org/2026/06/08/agent-finops/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hatch.org/2026/06/08/agent-finops/ <p><img src="https://www.hatch.org/images/agent-finops.png" alt="The Subsidy Era of Agentic Coding Just Ended. Nobody Built FinOps for It."></p> <p><strong>The best deal in software just ended, and the replacement bill is non-deterministic.</strong></p> <p>For two years, flat-rate coding-agent pricing was the deal of the decade. Twenty bucks a month, point an agent at your codebase, let it churn. You were almost certainly consuming more value than you paid for. That wasn&rsquo;t generosity. It was customer acquisition, financed by venture money, priced below cost on purpose. And in a two-week window this spring, three different vendors quietly clawed it back.</p>