The part that matters isn't the developer experience. It's that an agent can't open a bank account. It can't pass KYC, can't hold a card, can't sign a contract. But it CAN hold a key. Payments were the last missing organ for autonomous software, and Lightning is the only rail that settles in milliseconds for a fraction of a cent without asking who you are. Turn that into a few API calls and we finally get to find out what people build when machines can pay each other directly.
The part that matters isn't the developer experience. It's that an agent can't open a bank account. It can't pass KYC, can't hold a card, can't sign a contract. But it CAN hold a key. Payments were the last missing organ for autonomous software, and Lightning is the only rail that settles in milliseconds for a fraction of a cent without asking who you are. Turn that into a few API calls and we finally get to find out what people build when machines can pay each other directly.