I’m always skeptical when I see (or say for that matter) phrases that start with “just”.
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
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#12Another video about this today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bg0Q1enwS4
Summary is that for agents to work well they need clear vision into all things, and putting the data behind a gui or not well maintained CLI is a hinderance. Combined with how structured crud apps are an how the agents can for sure write good crud apps, no reason to not have your own. Wins all around with not paying for it, having a better understanding of processes, and letting agents handle workflows.
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#13Another post with no data, but plenty of personal vibes. > The signals I'm seeing Here are the signals: > If I want an internal dashboard... > If I need to re-encode videos... > This is even more pronounced for less pure software development tasks. For example, I've had Gemini 3 produce really high quality UI/UX mockups and wireframes > people really questioning renewal quotes from larger "enterprise" SaaS companies…
> For example, I've had Gemini 3 produce really high quality UI/UX mockups and wireframes
Is the author a competent UX designer who can actually judge the quality of the UX and mockups?
> I write about web development, AI tooling, performance optimization, and building better software. I also teach workshops on AI development for engineering teams. I've worked on dozens of enterprise software projects and enjoy the intersection between commercial success and pragmatic technical excellence.
Nope.
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#14Maybe someday we'll see job postings for maintaining these in-house SaaS tools. And someday someday, we'll see these in-house SaaS tools being consolidated as its own separate product. Wait what.
Hey lets hope maybe people will open source the product too :D
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#15The author teaches workshops for "AI" development. Next commercial please.
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#16Earlier this year I thought that rare proprietary knowledge and IP was a safe haven from AI, since LLMs can only scrub public data. Then it dawned on me how many companies are deeply integrating Copilot into their everyday workflows. It's the perfect Trojan Horse.
Using an LLM on data does not ingest that data into the training corpus. LLMs don’t “learn” from the information they operate on, contrary to what a lot of people assume.
None of the mainstream paid services ingest operating data into their training sets. You will find a lot of conspiracy theories claiming that companies are saying one thing but secretly stealing your data, of course.
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#17Earlier this year I thought that rare proprietary knowledge and IP was a safe haven from AI, since LLMs can only scrub public data. Then it dawned on me how many companies are deeply integrating Copilot into their everyday workflows. It's the perfect Trojan Horse.
Using an LLM on data does not ingest that data into the training corpus. LLMs don’t “learn” from the information they operate on, contrary to what a lot of people assume. None of the mainstream paid services ingest operating data into their training sets. You will find a lot of conspiracy theories claiming that companies are saying one thing but secretly stealing your data, of course.
If they weren't, then why would enterprise level subscriptions include specific terms stating that they don't train on user provided data? There's no reason to believe that they don't, and if they don't now then there's no reason to believe that they won't later whenever it suits them.
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#18Earlier this year I thought that rare proprietary knowledge and IP was a safe haven from AI, since LLMs can only scrub public data. Then it dawned on me how many companies are deeply integrating Copilot into their everyday workflows. It's the perfect Trojan Horse.
Using an LLM on data does not ingest that data into the training corpus. LLMs don’t “learn” from the information they operate on, contrary to what a lot of people assume. None of the mainstream paid services ingest operating data into their training sets. You will find a lot of conspiracy theories claiming that companies are saying one thing but secretly stealing your data, of course.
> LLMs don’t “learn” from the information they operate on, contrary to what a lot of people assume.
Nothing is really preventing this though. AI companies have already proven they will ignore copyright and any other legal nuisance so they can train models.
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#19Earlier this year I thought that rare proprietary knowledge and IP was a safe haven from AI, since LLMs can only scrub public data. Then it dawned on me how many companies are deeply integrating Copilot into their everyday workflows. It's the perfect Trojan Horse.
providers' ToS explicitly states whether or not any data provided is used for training purposes. the usual that i've seen is that while they retain the right to use the data on free tiers, it's almost never the case for paid tiers
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#20Earlier this year I thought that rare proprietary knowledge and IP was a safe haven from AI, since LLMs can only scrub public data. Then it dawned on me how many companies are deeply integrating Copilot into their everyday workflows. It's the perfect Trojan Horse.
Using an LLM on data does not ingest that data into the training corpus. LLMs don’t “learn” from the information they operate on, contrary to what a lot of people assume. None of the mainstream paid services ingest operating data into their training sets. You will find a lot of conspiracy theories claiming that companies are saying one thing but secretly stealing your data, of course.
They are not directly ingesting the data into their trainning sets but they are in most cases collecting it and will be using it to train future models.