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325 points davidbarker | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.874s | source
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isoprophlex ◴[25 Jun 25 18:48 UTC] No.44380642[source]▶
Is this the end of - or at least a significant challenge to - SaaS?

Why buy into saas tooling if you can just slap something together - that you fully own - with something like this?

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sealeck ◴[25 Jun 25 18:52 UTC] No.44380689[source]▶
- Compliance

- Thing should work reliably (and you want someone else to be responsible for fixing it if it doesn't)

- Security

- Most SaaS is sufficiently complex that an LLM cannot implement it

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1. jag729 ◴[25 Jun 25 20:33 UTC] No.44381562[source]▶
In the limit, though, are these things real roadblocks to app builders replacing SaaS? Paying for reliability/support seems like the only real remaining advantage of SaaS if codegen models get 3-5x better, and even then the bar is the reliability of SaaS apps right now (which in a lot of cases is not that high).

Could imagine a single universal app builder just charging a platform fee for support, or some business model along those lines. (Again, in the limit, I'm not sure that support would be too necessary)