Apps are getting evicted. AI agents skip the dashboard pilgrimage and just do the work, which makes mid-tier SaaS sweat through its polo shirt.
The story
*Patterns giving AI smell:*
– Big “nobody wants to hear this” opener. Kinda conference-posturing.
– Too-clean Phase One, Two, Three ladder. Real thinking is messier.
– Abstract SaaS words: “moat,” “network effects,” “regulatory lock-in.”
– Repeated sentence shape: claim, example, punchline.
– Not enough weird human texture. Needs more fingerprints, fewer keynote vibes.
🟢 Software is About to Get Evicted From Its Own House
I’m gonna say the thing SaaS booths don’t print on tote bags: a lot of apps don’t have much future.
Not the code. The *apps*. The login box. The clicking around. The “pay per human with a chair” model. Honey Buns, it had a nice run.
Software has been the middle layer between wanting a thing and getting the thing. You want expenses tracked, so you open a spreadsheet, make columns, fiddle with formulas, maintain the little gremlin, and hope nothing catches fire.
Agents make a rude question appear: why open the app at all?
Tell an AI, “Track my expenses each month and flag the weird stuff.” Then the work happens. No dashboard pilgrimage. No seat math. No tiny admin dungeon. You get the outcome you wanted before the software made you learn its personality.
Coding is getting easier to boss around with Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code. People are moving from typing every line to directing the machine. Yay, our wrists may survive.
But that’s level one.
Level two gets uncomfortable if you sell mid-tier SaaS. Project tools, form builders, internal dashboards, ordinary CRMs: the old wall around the castle was “this is hard to build.” That wall is shrinking. If a custom tool can show up in an afternoon, why rent the generic one forever?
Level three is where the app starts sweating through its polo shirt. Operator, Perplexity Assistant, Claude Computer Use: these tools aren’t only making software. They’re doing the work software used to help with.
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