AI has fundamentally changed SaaS economics
avivcarmis1 · hn · 2026-07-20
The article argues that SaaS is dead—not because AI merely “hurt” it, but because AI has changed the economics so fundamentally that the old model no longer fits.
It frames AI as the force that collapses traditional software margins and shifts value toward workflows, agents, and outcome-based products rather than seat-based subscriptions.
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