AI-coded SaaS replacements break down once maintenance and on-call begin
cto_junior · x · 2026-07-27
A repost of Gergely Orosz arguing that “SaaS replaced by AI-coded software” is only a fun demo, not a viable model for real businesses.
- Rebuilding ticketing, observability, and feature-flag systems is easy to imagine, but the real burden is keeping them updated and on-call.
- The cited example says a team went back to Linear because maintaining a vibecoded internal tool was stealing bandwidth from actual work.
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