Anti-money

Sam describes Alchemy as “anti-money”: reduce software sold as a service (SaaS) to libraries, then ask what remains valuable to manage. He names secrets and observability in that discussion. Observability uses logs, metrics, and traces to understand a running system. Watch from 39:15.

See his Alchemy conversation10.

Sources

  1. Sam Goodwin - Alchemy - YouTube. Sam Goodwin. Anti-money discussion; used for Sam's library-based framing of SaaS value. Accessed 2026-10-01.

Last changed 2026-10-07 in e73c9d9. Source on GitHub. Change log.

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