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It’ll just spit the code out. I vibe coded some with cookie handling the other day that worked. Should I have done it? Nope. But the ai did it and I allowed it

The concept of using a library for everything will become outdated

The time might come when the ai just writes things like http request parsers and crypto libraries on the fly. And it will be somewhat normal

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im not even sure id say they were "top", id more just say its a different type of engineer, that either doesnt get promoted to a big impact role at a place like microsoft, or leaves on their own.

yeah i have worked at a few FAANG, honestly stunning how entrenched and bad some of the products are. internally, they are completely incapable of making any meaningful product changes, the whole thing will break

pretty clear that companies like microsoft are actually terrible at engineering, their core products were built 30 years ago. any changes now are generally extremely incremental and quickly rolled back with issue. trying to innovate at github shows just how bad they are.

This is prime HN rage bait. I expect to see every cynical tech trope, including the idea that ai doesn’t work

yeah a small group of experts can leverage scala, its not a language for a corporate environment

Scala is too complicated. Most scala code bases I have worked on have no enforced structure, the language allows for all sorts of unconventional programming paradigms

its not even a prediction anymore, meaningful amounts of software engineering are already automated. really dont understand the point of these posts. its just people that are bad at using the tooling

no you dont understand, the whole career ladder at amazon is clogged with people at the company 10+ years, that have been in their role 5+ years. its a big game of dont get fired, and collect pay checks as long as possible

they should give some younger people a shot to move into these management positions.

amazon has mediocre quality talent that they grind to the bone. which worked when the company just needed raw execution. amazon has an operations culture, which was important for:

1. scaling retail

2. keeping the servers running at AWS

all the low hanging fruit has been picked, they need a fundamentally different employee base

Right now, amazon is packed full of L6 and L7 software managers, making 450-900k a year, that:

1. dont understand ai

2. have had the same skill set for 10 years

3. are working on autopilot, not trying to get promoted, just collecting paychecks

4. taking zero risk, follow protocol, play politics

for the company to move forwards, they need a massive purge. 15k is childs play. too many employees that make too much money to just maintain status quo

theres math, its mostly about pulling in obscure data sources, rank and file in alot of hedge funds dont even get to see what actually makes money

I have 15 years of software engineering experience across some top companies. I truly believe that ai will far surpass human beings at coding, and more broadly logic work. We are very close

honeslty with ai, i bet this works really well and basically removes all backend complexity

I am patiently awaiting the collapse of traditional saas VC

What happens when you can pivot with a new fully built product once a month?

Microsoft is a robust business, with corporate contracts going back 40 years. There are going to be exceptions and winners, and microsoft is probably a winner

Right now, you can take the raw html and css of a competitors website/saas product, give it to claude code, and it will rewrite your react/nextjs app to match the quality and style of the assets you gave it. You are underestimating how quickly these supposed moats have been decimated

I’m well aware of what makes sales difficult—I’ve lived it, both in early-stage, venture-backed environments and in long, enterprise sales cycles. In SaaS, almost everything about how sales works ultimately ties back to the cost of building software. Relationships and customer trust absolutely matter, but when building SaaS becomes trivial, the underlying equations change—and many of the old assumptions stop holding.

"As customers connect these nonfunctional requirements with a brand, I don't see how big SaaS players will have a problem."

Brand means almost nothing when a competitor can price the software at 90% cheaper. Which is what we are going to see

this isnt even true though. because if building software is so cheap, you wont be penalized for building the wrong thing. you just move onto the next

Really? Because UX Design, Graphic Design, and other "corporate creative" roles are essentially obsolete and these people cannot get hired.

Yes, the moat is disappearing. Go look at any stock index of publicly traded saas companies, they have all been selling off 50% in the last six months. This is going to be a bloodbath

When software becomes cheap to build, a lot of strange second-order effects kick in. It’s not just that products are easier to create; sales, marketing, and every other business function can iterate faster alongside them. That speed erodes moats. As this reality sinks in, I think we’re headed for a brutal shakeout in SaaS.

People still argue that distribution is the real bottleneck now. But when the product itself is trivial to build and change, the old dynamics break down. Historically, sales was hard because you had to design and refine a sales motion around a product that evolved slowly and carried real technical risk. You couldn’t afford to pour resources into distribution before the product stabilized, because getting it wrong was expensive.

That constraint is gone. The assumptions and equations we relied on to understand SaaS no longer apply—and the industry hasn’t fully internalized what that means yet.

AI just generates all this. The true take is that this argument all together is obsolete, you shouldnt even be writing tailwind by hand anymore

Basically yeah, a lot of people just keeping the lights on