We hate surfaced micropayments. Flipping a lightswitch is a micropayment in so far as it comes due as part of your electricity bill, but we ignore it because it doesn't come with a dedicated payment-authorization step.

If there is a message-to-the-medium of LLMs and the agentic internet era, it's commodification. More digital services are going to converge on metered billing, with incremental usage being extremely cheap - like the lightswitch, cheap enough to be implemented without the explicit payment-auth step on each minor decision.

Software and users will likely start setting some sorts of policy limits and alerting systems for different categories of spending.

If these micro payment walls actually caught on I'm like 90% confident they would become the new "SV leeches sucking up every cent I have to spend" zeitgeist currently occupied by subscriptions with ever increasing prices.