Great pov John. I understand the potential power of business now being able to create their own bespoke software, but I ask why? It is basically creating more work (and more headcount), and more downstream headache. I would guess there is coverage for most biz problems and applications in the market. I try to make things more simple, taking on software dev sounds like the opposite. Classic quote from a customer “throw money at the problem until it goes away”… nice to hear the podcast version as well! Is that new?
Thanks Chris. My expectation is that we end up with a hybrid of the two approaches - customers buy a core platform that takes care of 80% of what they (and most other customers) need and can use AI to address the remaining 20% that's unique to them, without requiring the vendor to build anything. The rub is that many SaaS businesses simply don't have the right architecture to enable vibe coding or agentic AI on top of their software, and these businesses will have an especially hard time.
Great pov John. I understand the potential power of business now being able to create their own bespoke software, but I ask why? It is basically creating more work (and more headcount), and more downstream headache. I would guess there is coverage for most biz problems and applications in the market. I try to make things more simple, taking on software dev sounds like the opposite. Classic quote from a customer “throw money at the problem until it goes away”… nice to hear the podcast version as well! Is that new?
Thanks Chris. My expectation is that we end up with a hybrid of the two approaches - customers buy a core platform that takes care of 80% of what they (and most other customers) need and can use AI to address the remaining 20% that's unique to them, without requiring the vendor to build anything. The rub is that many SaaS businesses simply don't have the right architecture to enable vibe coding or agentic AI on top of their software, and these businesses will have an especially hard time.
Oh and yeah the audio version is something new I'm trying out. More of an experiment. Glad you're liking it!