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The Downfall of SAAS and the Ai Fire in which it Burns
Engineer’s Enigma #4
What happens when you have AI Agent that can spin up a template of software that mimics any software you currently pay for?
If you look at this from a perspective of 30 years ago, to get online you needed access to a phone line (you couldn’t call out while you were using the internet,) and you needed a service to connect you that charged you by the minute.
Look what’s happened in those 30 years. There are multiple providers, multiple devices, and multiple connections to the Internet that compete with each other. You can even now even use Starlink Internet for 75 bucks a month in the absolute middle of nowhere and get high speeds. If that’s not incredible to you, somethings wrong.
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The SAAS (Software as a Service) market size was around 273 billion dollars in 2023. Where will all that money go when you literally can spin up an AI agent to make software for you that normally you had to pay $100 a month for. Do they start charging us for Software Hosting instead?
What happens to all the developers who’ve made their living making software and taking…
