The institutional consequence of r/webdev's current pattern is that the community has quietly established a proof-of-work requirement for AI posts. The enterprise architecture agent [1] was pitched on its constraints — local, browser-based, zero cloud — not on its potential. The creator toolkit [2] was framed against a specific price point and two named incumbents. The traffic-data fix led with a problem statement and a resolution. Each post structured itself as evidence first, assertion second. That structure is now the price of entry, and developers who have not shipped…