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you do realize that these so called "one-off" AI programs would need to be maintained? Most people paying for Saas are paying for the support/maintenance rather than features, which AI can't handle. No one will want to replace any Saas they depend on with a poorly generated variant that they want to maintain

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Nah, you only write it and it runs by itself forever in the AI cloud.

Sometimes I wonder if people saying this stuff have actually worked in development at all.

Thinking of it in terms of code is why the idea sounds ridiculous. AI won't make you a Django app and deploy to the cloud (though you can also do that), systems will be built based on pipelines and automation, integrations, just-in-time UI or conversational interfaces. Similar to the no-code platforms of today.

Most people don’t want cloud hosted subscription software, we do it that way because VCs love vendor lock in and recurring revenue.

Old school desktop software takes very little maintenance. Once you get rid of user tracking, AB testing, monitoring, CICD pipelines, microservices, SOC, multi tenant distributed databases, network calls and all the other crap things get pretty simple.

There was a vulnerability of 7-zip found in Nov, 2024.

Yes, 7-zip.

https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2024...

1. If everyone is running custom written software that's not shared with anyone else if will be really hard to find vulnerabilities in them

2. I'm sure LLMs are already way better at detecting vulnerabilities than the average engineer. (when asked to do so explicitly)

You can go further: Which business will bet its entire existence, let alone finances, to an "AI" (Companies are literally writing "don't rely on X LLM outputs as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice"?

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