Comment by flatline
7 hours ago
We're sitting on a year of more or less capable coding models and I have not exactly seen a revolution in new software being released. AI is likely a force multiplier for specific subsets of individuals and workflows. Coding is not a bottleneck for a lot of systems.
I suspect that SaaS is silently being eaten alive as an industry.
You often pay for regulatory compliance and liability with SaaS. Would you risk running your own vibe-coded payroll or accounting system for your company?
Yep. The SaaS-is-doomed crowd are missing this part. It's the Red Hat model (debatable how well they do it, but they exist, so..)
I think SaaS will be fine. How the field works might change, but in the end marginal cost of software is still zero and when you've got a quality, well-tested and well-designed product it's going to be obviously better than things vibed together.
Talk to the emulator community. Huge leaps being made there. Or binary decompiling topics. Huge leaps there. There is more than web applications
Can you link to some of the huge leaps in emulators and binary decompilation that have caught your attention? (I hope that doesn't sound like a challenge. I'm just interested.)
PS5 is a good one: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5