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I had an interesting thought: if coding AI gets good enough will it eventually be possible to pirate SaaS?

Probably not extremely complex deep SaaS but about 80% of it is just a UI in front of a database and some associated services more or less. A very good coding AI could probably clone the UI and the database at least by setting a bot loose on the system to learn.

Not sure you’d even call it piracy except maybe in spirit. I suppose their ToS could forbid it.

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> if coding AI gets good enough will it eventually be possible to pirate SaaS

The secret to SaaS is knowing customers and having/getting buy-in. The code is mostly boilerplate.

Can you provide an example of a SaaS product that is mostly boilerplate?

Perhaps you're just talking about the part that handles accounts and subscriptions and not the actual features of the product?

Plus the AI could understand the business logic from the buttons and what they say. If it says "Ban user" or "Play", it's pretty clear what is supposed to happen. You just have to show it all interfaces..

This has been the dream ever since the days of the Tom Swift novels.

A machine that turns a loose description of the sort of application I want into a functioning architecture with proper user interface and storage? Yes. Let's build that.

If coding actually became this good, what would be the point of "pirating" it? Why not request that an app be made tailored specifically to your user interests and no one else's?

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