Comment by conductr

Probably. It’s already happening with SaaS as an example. I’ve mentioned this on HN a lot in past but my (established) company has been rolling its own CRM and some other tools with AI.

It seems we can build a product ourselves in the same time it would take us to talk to saas vendors and draft the RFP/requirements. We can build it and iterate as the requirements are being forged, so can essentially have completed software with just the features we care about, with full ability to add features in future (something saas doesn’t promise) often before an implementation would even kick off. We’re searching through all our SaaS products and i expect we’ll cut 50% of them in 1-2 years. The ones that are sufficiently complex or regulated have some protection (like accounting systems).