Build vs Buy Is Being Distorted by AI: Here's How

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The SaaSpocalypse is here, and depending on your perspective, I am either part of the problem or part of the solution.

Over the past year, I have become much more of a builder and much less of a buyer of software. This does not mean that I’m now an engineer. This simply means that the Build vs Buy equation has been weighted heavily in favor of “Build” by modern AI coding.

Some people think of the SaaSpocalypse as coding agents and AI models directly replacing the functionality of existing SaaS tools, or AI native tools supplanting their legacy competitors. I think of it a little bit differently. It’s not so much that new platforms are replacing old platforms; it’s that internal platforms are replacing external platforms.

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