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0 pointscoldlestat1mo ago0 comments

> I just don't see a world where every corporation is building their own accounts, crm, hr software.

I agree on that point. But I think the industry will still take a huge hit. As SaaS may not be killed by any random individuals, but big corps.

We just moved from sharing skills about good practice for a few functions to skills about good architecture/design/marketing practices.

It's just a question of time before we get skills about "good features in a CRM". And there is a high chance, a LLM will generate them in a few minutes ^_^

We could already do them for a few software, like notepads and ticketing software.

IMO any fully virtualized business will become trivialized through global knowledge sharing.

I don't think META/MICROSOFT/OPENAI will close their eyes on the "Amazon Basics" strategy. IMO they will (soon?) provide high scale replacements for simple and expected softwares.

Right now it would require them a lot of defocus. But soon it will be just a new product, an agent away.

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intrasight1mo ago

>provide high scale replacements for simple and expected softwares

I like the "Amazon Basics" analogy.

Also consider that these enterprise platforms are both very expensive and very customizable. Consider SAP which is a huge proprietary mess - including the backing store. An enterprise that buys into SAP is also buying into spending $1M+ a year on consultants.

Open enterprise software will have at it's core open relational database schemas that can be run on the database engine of your choosing. The AI models will be very familiar with those schemas and with the presentation tiers, and will be building a bespoke business app - but not from scratch.

I think the enterprise software consultancies are going to be in trouble. New consultancies will soon emerge who will help move customers off of the legacy platforms.

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