Samuel Rondot pushes back on 'SaaS is dead': people can cook, and restaurants still exist
Not everyone is writing obituaries. Samuel Rondot takes the most popular argument of the AI zombie apocalypse, that customers will just vibe-code their own tools, and answers it with a kitchen. People can cook, and restaurants still exist. It's the rallying cry of the SaaS survivors barricading the doors: being able to build something yourself doesn't mean you want to. Whether the restaurants survive the horde is the fight this whole game is about.
"Saas is dead because customers can vibe-code their own tools."
People can cook. Restaurants still exist.
— Samuel Rondot, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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