---
title: "Anti-money"
description: "Sam Goodwin frames Alchemy as reducing SaaS products to libraries and shifting value elsewhere."
plain: "Sam calls Alchemy anti-money: turn SaaS products into libraries, then ask what is still worth managing."
group: concept
terms:
  - "anti-money"
sources:
  - url: https://youtu.be/MtKHzAH6uXM?t=2355
    title: "Sam Goodwin - Alchemy - YouTube"
    publisher: "Sam Goodwin"
    note: "Anti-money discussion; used for Sam's library-based framing of SaaS value."
    accessed: "2026-10-01"
---

# Anti-money

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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](https://youtu.be/MtKHzAH6uXM?t=2355).

See [his Alchemy conversation](/lore/devtools-fm-sam-goodwin-alchemy).

## Sources

1. [Sam Goodwin - Alchemy - YouTube](https://youtu.be/MtKHzAH6uXM?t=2355)
   Sam Goodwin. Anti-money discussion; used for Sam's library-based framing of SaaS value. Accessed 2026-10-01.

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