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The doomsday saying the past months that everyone will now vibecode a solution instead of paying for SaaS as a big logic error… These people could have switched to self-hosting an open source clone of any popular SaaS but they didn‘t! Why? Because they dont want to be the person maintaining this, so we should those people not self-hosting a free software now go one step further and also build those products?

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> Because they dont want to be the person maintaining this, so we should those people not self-hosting a free software now go one step further and also build those products?

If one thinks AI can do this eventually then it makes sense. But I feel that is impossible the predict.

Who do you think they can blame in case of outage/security issues etc ?

Outside of hacker sphere, there is no "maintenance" need for productivity software. People use the same software for years and years without updates. Even decades.

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