Reddit's tin-foil theory: SaaS firms using LLMs may be funding their own demise
athoughtfornoone · reddit · 2026-10-22
A Reddit user floats a self-admitted "tin foil hat" theory: LLM providers sell coding agents to legacy SaaS companies, who improve their products with AI; then the LLM providers clone those SaaS products themselves and, via terms of service, bar the originals from continuing to use their AI — meaning legacy vendors are effectively funding their own demise. Pure speculation, but it sparks discussion on LLM business-model conflicts.
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