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by Aperezvigoa 97 days ago
Exactly!! and I think that's the underrated part of L402.

It's not just a payment mechanism, it's a new primitive for HTTP itself. The protocol already has a 402 status code that's been sitting unused since 1991. Lightning makes it finally usable.

The interesting implication for AI agents: they can acquire access to resources autonomously, without any human provisioning a credential. The agent just pays. That changes how you architect systems that need to consume external data or services.

Still early.. most developers haven't seen a 402 response in production before. But the primitives are all there now.