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This is one of the best articles I've seen come across HN lately. You presented a well structured argument, and one I strongly believe in. I had a conversation

This is one of the best articles I've seen come across HN lately. You presented a well structured argument, and one I strongly believe in. I had a conversation with someone the other day, trying to convince them how easy it would be to solve a problem they had by creating a quick program with Claude. They were so computer averse, so used to thinking that coding was some impossible task, that they refused to even try or let me show them. SaaS isn't dead at all. In fact, I think we may have just entered the golden age

jorisw 2mo ago
> we may have just entered the golden age How so?
- fragmede 2mo ago
  Because it invites more competition. Previously, if there was one vendor but they sucked, you just had to put up with them and use them anyway. Now, if they suck that much, someone's going to come along and eat their lunch.
  - ryaniscool 2mo ago
    I think it could go either way because what I consider calcification of choices because of AI. We've all seen people outsourcing their thinking to AI. "Hey Claude, I need bug tracking which product should I use?" Claude then recommends Jira because it's the defacto standard as of 2026. This leads to Jira getting even more popular, leading to subsequent training data keeping it as the defacto standard. Same issue for development technologies. React/Typescript will never ever go away thanks to coding agents.