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Malleable Software

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Re: Malleable Software

#12

Post by bryanrasmussen »

101008 wrote: post #6

A lot of people been saying this lately, that LLMs are going to make SaaS obsolete because you will be able to build the alternative yourself without the need to pay. But (and I'll copy & paste a comment I wrote a few days ago) I disagree. This existed way before LLM. Open source alternatives to most products are already available. And install them and deploy them is much easier than do it with LLMs, and you get upda…

hey yeah, there's no need to have a payment provider to take care of all your taxes being paid correctly and on time. We have AI!

This would be one of the greatest entertainment events of the 21st century! Shame about all the destruction that will happen as a consequence of course, but ...entertainment!

Re: Malleable Software

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Post by tablet »

cyco130 wrote: post #10

For six years I worked in a SaaS startup that built an applicant tracking system (a tool to manage recruitment efforts in big/mid-sized companies) tailored for the local market of the country we lived in. My experience tells me that our main value was in forcing them to rethink their recruitment processes, not adapting to their existing ones that were usually all over the place. As much as I want to believe the oppos…

The problem here is in definition. Context is quite diverse and better practice for team A is an absolute disaster for team B.

Re: Malleable Software

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Post by actionfromafar »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #12
101008 wrote: post #6

A lot of people been saying this lately, that LLMs are going to make SaaS obsolete because you will be able to build the alternative yourself without the need to pay. But (and I'll copy & paste a comment I wrote a few days ago) I disagree. This existed way before LLM. Open source alternatives to most products are already available. And install them and deploy them is much easier than do it with LLMs, and you get upda…

hey yeah, there's no need to have a payment provider to take care of all your taxes being paid correctly and on time. We have AI! This would be one of the greatest entertainment events of the 21st century! Shame about all the destruction that will happen as a consequence of course, but ...entertainment!

Whole governments run in that mode now.

Re: Malleable Software

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Post by prmph »

tablet wrote: post #9
101008 wrote: post #6

A lot of people been saying this lately, that LLMs are going to make SaaS obsolete because you will be able to build the alternative yourself without the need to pay. But (and I'll copy & paste a comment I wrote a few days ago) I disagree. This existed way before LLM. Open source alternatives to most products are already available. And install them and deploy them is much easier than do it with LLMs, and you get upda…

This is not what the article is about. Main idea is that rigid software can finally be replaced by flexible, since flexibility is no longer such expensive

Nope, anyone saying this does not understand fundamentally what software is. This so-called malleable software is a recipe for chaos.

Re: Malleable Software

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Post by mhogers »

data layer > business logic layer > presentation layer

I believe the presentation/analytics layer has become malleable, possibly parts of the business logic layer - you still need a higher % of trustworthiness than LLMs can provide for parts of the business and data layers.

Re: Malleable Software

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

actionfromafar wrote: post #14
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hey yeah, there's no need to have a payment provider to take care of all your taxes being paid correctly and on time. We have AI! This would be one of the greatest entertainment events of the 21st century! Shame about all the destruction that will happen as a consequence of course, but ...entertainment!

Whole governments run in that mode now.

Our Governments AI says we never paid our taxes, Our AI says it paid our taxes, our CEO says nobody should pay taxes, and our VC's AI says we're broke and a Unicorn at the same time.
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