Why AI Agents Are Redefining the Open Source Supply Chain
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04-Mar-2026
We’ve all heard about the AI disruption, but as Eclipse Foundation CMO Thabang Mashologu joins Alan today, it’s clear that we are hitting a massive "goodness squared" problem of scale that no one was truly prepared for. AI agents are now hitting registries like Open VSX at 20 times the rate of human developers, driving monthly downloads past the 300 million mark and forcing a complete rethink of how we fund and stabilize open source infrastructure. If you think your platform is ready for the vertical growth of AI-native tooling, think again—we’re in a race to build the "asphalt" for a superhighway where the traffic isn't just increasing; it's accelerating by the millisecond.
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