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Maybe personal niche software is solved, but enterprise software isn't.

Also many times solving a problem people don't even realise they have, would still give immense value to the one who creates it, even though anyone could have created that software if only they thought about/identified the problem.

As they say, we will have a renaissance of software development

Why wouldn't the corporate people just prompt together until they have what they need? As a matter if fact SaaS people are already complaining a lot about SaaS dying.

I think some saas will die, but having common cross industry/cross company softwares being managed by a seperate entity would make logical sense for the broader world(better design, seperation of concern?), even if arguably they could create their own version of that company.

Case in point, PM management software (Jira), might be a very easy tool now for any company to make(a very naive stand, but in a world of ai not far fetched to argue), but managing and maintaining that software is still a chore, and it might not be in the interest of everyone to spend their effort on it. They might still prefer paying for it. Now, the product itself might die and some other product might take its place, but still that new product would be an individual thing. Atleast that's what I think.

If each entity creates their own specialised SaaS, to be used privately, that becomes less useful if each corporation (this could also be for a different department within the same business entity) cannot interoperate or integrate with other parties, where they would've produced software for the same purpose. An AI-implemented SaaS is fine, but it cannot run a standards body or autonomously integrate with a different enterprise as it looks today. This is a problem that ought to be solved. OAuth/OIDC paves part of this path I guess.

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