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The token trap: Why AI agents won’t kill open source (and what you missed at OpenSearchCon)

calendar_today June 30, 2026 person Bianca Lewis domain opensearch

The rise of agentic AI has sparked a debate on whether open-source infrastructure is becoming obsolete. However, as David Nalley of AWS highlighted at OpenSearchCon India 2026, the economics of token consumption make recreating established infrastructure from scratch a waste of resources. Rather than reinventing foundational software, AI agents should utilize proven, open-source building blocks like OpenSearch.

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