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AI changes this equation fundamentally, in a way that VC and SaaS founders still haven't realized. Nobody ever liked having to change their business, their wor
by elzbardico 18d ago
AI changes this equation fundamentally, in a way that VC and SaaS founders still haven't realized.
Nobody ever liked having to change their business, their workflows, or ducting taping a customization in a SaaS, they did because as we moved from centralized mainframe apps, to PC client-server and then Web based distributed apps, it became increasingly more cost-effective to suffer with a generic, one-size-fits-all SaaS than building at home.
AI coding changes this a lot.
- Cthulhu_ 18d agoI'm going to give this a "maybe"; the challenge with large scale software isn't in authoring new code or whatever, it's in managing complexity. I think AIs / agents (and more importantly how we are learning to use them effectively) may help in that regard, but only if they are able to manage that complexity. This'll depend on context window sizes, their ability to explore a codebase, and how well their operators can provide relevant information. But that's only what they can consume (so codebase, documentation, etc), on top of that are the people that work with / for these systems for decades and who know a lot about things outside of what's written down.