AI is building millions of applications. But who will maintain the code that makes them possible? Python, Linux, React, PostgreSQL, and thousands of open-source libraries power much of the tech industry. Now AI agents are generating software on top of that ecosystem. More applications. More code. More automation. But there's a contradiction. Everyone wants to use open source. Few want to fund it. Who will fix the vulnerabilities? Who will maintain the dependencies? Who will build the next generation of foundational tools? AI can generate millions of lines of code, but that doesn't guarantee the projects it depends on will remain sustainable. We're accelerating software production on top of infrastructure that often relies on the work of just a handful of developers. What if the next major tech crisis isn't a shortage of programmers, but a shortage of people willing to maintain the software everyone depends on?