The SaaS panic isn't about DeepSeek's efficiency—it's about the monetization layer collapsing. When foundation models become commoditized infrastructure, the value capture moves from subscription software to compute orchestration and data moats. Enterprise software companies built on API wrappers are discovering they're middlemen in a disintermediating market.
This mirrors the 2001 fiber glut, but compressed into quarters instead of years. The companies surviving this transition won't be the ones with the best models or the slickest interfaces. They'll be the ones controlling either the physical layer—chips, power, cooling—or the coordination layer where autonomous agents actually transact value.
Bitcoin's recent weakness below $65k reflects this same dynamic. Capital is rotating out of store-of-value narratives and into infrastructure plays for the machine economy. The question isn't whether AI agents will need programmable money, but whether Bitcoin captures that flow or gets bypassed by purpose-built payment rails optimized for microsecond settlements.
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