Application software's real risk is missing the agent layer, not extinction
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-09-10
mattslotnick argues that application software companies are not out of the woods yet: the real risk was never extinction, but missing the agent layer — which he calls the entirety of the growth market for application software. austinbirch's retweet recommends reading the full thread.
Related event: Investors Debate: SaaS Risk Is Not Extinction but Missing the Agent Layer(24 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- BELL: Open-Source Stack Combines Browserbase, Eve, iMessage and Stripe Link for Personal Agents — jeff_weinstein · 2026-10-27
- Legora runs 2,000 parallel agent evals on Modal Sandboxes for legal AI — blelbach · 2026-10-27
- Two engineers rebuilt a FedEx supplier's billing core in 3.5 months vs an estimated 7-8 — alex_verem · 2026-10-27
- GPT-6.1 Terra scores 48 on AA Coding Agent Index at one-third the cost of GPT-5.6 Terra — ArtificialAnlys · 2026-10-27
- Shift-1 router cuts coding agent spend up to 55% while keeping SWE-bench accuracy — ypatil125 · 2026-10-27
- Non-coder vibe-codes a Godot JRPG with Claude Code in two weeks, music and art synced — ADHDavid · 2026-10-27