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The issue is you can't use the "I'll give you a deeper discount for a 3 year contract" line anymore.

It'll potentially create a situation where customers in the US pay a lot less because they still have that incentive.

Agree - not every company is going to """vibe code""" their own ticketing solutions - it's just not an integral part of running their business.

Having a more tailored, "AI-native" solution is, well, the solution here.

He's setting a dangerous trap for others - just like they did when they said they were firing all human support and then rehired them later.

Yes, Klarna can rebuild everything because they have hundreds of engineers and effectively infinite runway - but they're pretty much saying "just rip out your entire tech stack and rebuild it from scratch", cool, but most founders can't make that choice.

tl;dr: the author wants Apple to make them again because only Apple knows how to make things look good

Lots of banks already do this natively (through their partnerships with Tink, Personetics, Plaid, Subaio, etc.)

e.g., https://tink.com/blog/use-cases/dyme-partners-with-tink/

I think it speaks to the fact that this is a new industry and most people have no idea how to price the value of what they're selling yet

it's going to happen.

we take a lot of things today at face value and that's not necessarily how things will work.

WHY do I still need to update fields in a CRM, why doesn't it just know that I've had an e-mail/meeting (that is auto-transcribed and tracked) and update it accordingly?

the ai-native variants of CRMs will look different for sure.

No, you should pivot to solve the project management issues without thinking about it in terms of a SaaS CRM that someone uses manually

Which part do you disagree with?

Yes, that's the direction we're going in globally. You can keep ignoring it but it's not going away.

I can't tell everyone how to build their business - but I do actually detail that you need to walk away from the solution you built and revisit the problem you want to solve in an "AI Native" way.

That means think of the future without the usual windows-icons / SaaS-seat solution but rather how you built this with agents, a chat interface, etc.

"Should I buy one? That's up to you, champ. I'm not your real dad"

cool cool cool....

that's a good idea but the best idea is to decouple the product you're selling from the tokens it consumes.

you shouldn't be pricing compute directly (by charging for tokens yourself)

While I really want to agree with this, it's giving "You can trivially set up an SFTP server..."

I really wish this was as easy as talking about it is.

In concrete technical terms you might be right but lots of companies have to deal with aftercare and lots of customers really care about the agent actually did or did not do the work

Finally some good news today

Previous article in the series: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39510147

I like the idea but this is not going to last long

Good start though!

Apple again going for malicious compliance with an ultra-complicated two-tier system that is both anti-business, anti-consumer, and plain mean-spirited.

A few years ago, the biggest problem with Erlang's hot code updates was getting the files updated on all of the nodes. Has this been solved or improved in any way?

Stripe thinks that AI is now ready to not only read data but also act on it and generate payment things.

Because AI is still prone to hallucinations and making stuff up, I am a bit concerned about letting agents do things like adjust pricing tiers automatically, negotiate payment plans, or alter things that may not be entirely legal to do.

Uhhh that's not how Generally Accepted Accounting Principles work.

Saw a company that worked that way. They didn't have a good time when auditors came by.

Sorry but tax rules in the US are much more complicated than EU rules, which is a huge reason why Avalara exists...

Nazism and pedophilia are controversial???

"A terrorist organization promised to only do one thing and not the other"

> Making a math library for fun

Suspicious

> please don’t think of AMD as an x86 company, we are a computing company, and we will use the right compute engine for the right workload.

Love that quote.

Every single airline says this for the last 15 years at least.

On some routes you see lots of loose seatbelts (Middle East, Africa). On European flights, everyone has the seatbelt on for the entire flight.

I made a beeline to the median, because funnily enough my median for other B2B SaaS was also 41. I feel vindicated!

For consumer stuff my experience was closer to 25, but for businesses it was 41.