There\u2019s a growing narrative that AI will replace SaaS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If AI can build anything, why pay for software subscriptions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The logic sounds compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s also flawed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Software is a tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you were an advanced AI system, would you reinvent a calculator every time you needed one?
Or would you use the calculator that already exists?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AI is learning to use tools for the same reason humans do.
Because tools encode explicit knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A CRM encodes workflow.
An ERP encodes accounting rules.
A design tool encodes physics and constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are not just interfaces.
They are accumulated domain intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AI doesn\u2019t eliminate tools.
It amplifies their importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The companies that thrive won\u2019t be those replaced by AI.
They\u2019ll be the ones whose tools become native extensions of AI workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The real shift is not SaaS disappearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s SaaS becoming programmable by intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that\u2019s a very different story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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