[−]unsnap_biceps · 2026-10-11 Sun 03:32 UTC ·
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A future of all SaaS only works if you can't just tell a LLM what you want and get a custom implementation. I've always done a lot of personal projects, but my velocity has increased dramatically and I've replaced a number of projects that I used to pay for with custom ones that work well enough. I can't imagine that SaaS is going to be a viable model unless it involves a community that wants a unified experience, like a multiplayer game.
Even then, interact with a SaaS enough and you may be able to "distill" a spec out of it that's sufficient enough for an LLM to replicate it closely enough. If you feed the LLM screenshots or video of people using it, it will be able to recreate it even more accurately.
> If you feed the LLM screenshots or video of people using it, it will be able to recreate it even more accurately.
You could just have the LLM agent use the software itself and then duplicate the functionality it finds, don't even need the screenshots or video.
Unless the software is doing something extremely novel, the LLM can just do this all itself after you point it toward a url for the software with instructions to clone what it finds there.
It'll be interesting to see if SaaS companies and/or providers of internet services like Cloudflare try to stop this sort of agentic cloning of SaaS products.
Like, obviously they would kinda want to if/when this sort of thing becomes commonplace, but how do you do it while allowing your software to be agent-friendly for non-cloning uses, and who is going to want to tell their customers they can't use agents with their SaaS for fear of their software being cloned? Kind of a bad situation with either option.
You could just have the LLM agent use the software itself and then duplicate the functionality it finds, don't even need the screenshots or video.
Unless the software is doing something extremely novel, the LLM can just do this all itself after you point it toward a url for the software with instructions to clone what it finds there.
It'll be interesting to see if SaaS companies and/or providers of internet services like Cloudflare try to stop this sort of agentic cloning of SaaS products.
Like, obviously they would kinda want to if/when this sort of thing becomes commonplace, but how do you do it while allowing your software to be agent-friendly for non-cloning uses, and who is going to want to tell their customers they can't use agents with their SaaS for fear of their software being cloned? Kind of a bad situation with either option.