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This isn't helping my spiraling realization that nothing is valuable to build anymore because AI has sucked the margin out of software
At work (R&D at a fortune 500 company w/ 15k+ employees), every time a SaaS pitches their product, my first question in the review meeting is, "Why don't we just build this ourselves?"
In the past, there were always good answers to that question. Today, I can't think of any.
If we can point an agent at any website or demo, have it research the broader problem for 72 hours, build the product with a focus on our specific needs, with any extra features we want, AND save a million a year why would we pay for your SaaS?
Scale? It only has to scale to 15,000 employees and a few million customers. We don't have the same scaling problem you do serving 1,000 businesses with 100s of million of customers. Scale is a non-issue.
Reliability? Your 99.9% self-reported uptime is not impressive. We can pay to host an app on a hyperscaler too. And when we do it, we know with certainty whether the uptime number is true or not. Github's official status page reports ~99% uptime. The Missing GitHub Status Page reports 93%. Reliability is a non-issue.
Bugs? You think your SaaS product doesn't have bugs to work out? I've seen bugs in third party products cost our company millions. Everyone is shipping early and often. Including your SaaS. Every piece of software has bugs. But there is a big difference between a bug in your code and a bug in ours. When the bug is in your code, we are at your mercy. Maybe you put it into Jira immediately. Are you going to bypass sprint planning? You won't have a fix for two weeks. Maybe you'll fail to reproduce and blame our code. Maybe it is our code. Maybe its an interplay. Since you don't have our code and we don't have your code, how are we going to figure that out? If it's all our code, an employee can fix it in an hour. If we need to, we can throw ten engineers with agents in a call until it's reproduced, the fix is merged, and it's validated. Bugs are a non-issue.
Bandwidth? Agents are nearly autonomous now. They don't need to be babysat. I can spin up a project and let an agent run for 50 hours, have it build a PowerPoint and walk into a demo with leadership blind. If anything breaks, "I'm still working on that." Things always break in demos. Nobody cares. If leadership proposes a feature, the answer is, "Yeah, great idea, I can add that." Because I can. Bandwidth is a non-issue.
Maintenance? We have so much prior art, inputs and outputs, we can benchmark anything. We have autonomous PR systems built on top of in-app feedback SDKs so even the non-dev users can contribute to every app or service. Even our analytics systems are tied to automated PRs. Maintenance is a non-issue.
Support? It doesn't matter how much we're paying a month for your platinum level enterprise support when our point of contact has to fetch the one dev who already went home for every non-trivial incident. The incident is never trivial. We already checked the top 10 things it could be because that was faster than asking you. Support is a non-issue.
Expertise? Agentic research. We can build anything. Expertise is a non-issue.
Cost? The cost of intelligence has gone down 100x every year. You're still charging 2022 prices. You should be charging closer to your electricity costs. Cost is a non-issue.
At this point, the only reason we don't switch off existing services is that transitioning 15,000 employees to something else is a pain in the butt. It would be a pain in the butt even with a perfect bug-free, infinitely scalable, perfectly-reliable clone.
Your new SaaS doesn't have that moat.
But it does give me an idea for a product to build.
It’s all over.
We had a good run friends.
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees cnbc.com/2026/10/26/microsof…
Is building in public dead?
What’s the point if all you are doing is painting a huge target on your back to get your app instantly cloned? 😕
Why pay $29 when you can get it for free?
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• realtime visitors on a live map
• funnels, goals, page paths
• ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity traffic as its own channel
• bots classified, not just dropped
• MCP server so your coding agent can query your analytics
What it doesn't do yet: Stripe revenue by source. Which is on the roadmap.
Want something else? PRs are welcome.
Holy shit, this situation is getting scary now…
Maybe Sam and Dario were not bluffing after all 😰
Signed up for @cursor_ai but I'm getting so frustrated with what should be a fairly basic test of agents:
Create an issue on a private repo.
After connecting to Github and giving it full access to all my repos, the agent keeps running into a "403: Resource not accessible by integration"...
I did the same thing with Codex and I was up and running QUICK.
Anybody run into any of these issues before?
Just 18 months ago, I contacted a company that specializes in promotional launch videos for one of my projects.
This is a real quote I got back from them.
Now you can do this with a $20 Claude sub and 3 prompts.
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Replying to @appleinsider @Amber_M_Neely
it was written all over the timeline
I like the new America.gov design overall but holy shit this slide is killing me 💀
Kudos to the designer who trolled management and got them to approve it 🤌🏻👨🏻🍳
The government just launched its own AI portal on america.gov/
The design is actually pretty good.
One of my favorite ways of using ChatGPT Work right now is to have it fill out application forms for me.
Especially when their legacy systems fail to map data correctly from a PDF resume upload.
Here's a little something you might not know about me:
I'm turning 42 years old in a few weeks.
I got laid off a year ago and still haven't been able to find a new job.
My savings started evaporating so quickly that I had no other choice but to move back in with my parents.
Definitely not where I thought I'd be at this point in my life.
But it's OK.
I'm gonna figure this out.
This chapter of my life sucks.
But it's not the last one.
My gaming backlog is so bad I think I’ll be skipping GTA6 and GTA7.
Should be all caught up by the time GTA8 comes out.
The "Remote" and "Computer use" features of the ChatGPT app have opened my eyes on what a total paradigm shift the next era of computing will look like.
No more sitting at a desk all day in front of a screen.
You'll be able to control your computer from anywhere with just your voice and your smartphone.
I've never been more bullish on AI than I am today.




















