[malshe]

> A competent developer working with Claude Code or Codex could now replicate the core functionality of a mid-market SaaS product in weeks. Not perfectly or with every edge case handled, but well enough that the CIO reviewing a $500k annual renewal started asking the question “what if we just built this ourselves?”

This has been repeated ad nauseam in the media without any bearing to reality. I'm not a software developer but one has to just use any enterprise grade software to develop an appreciation for how difficult it is to maintain it. And that's just from a user's perspective.

[harambae]

There’s also all sorts of audit logs and legal compliance and iso/nist/etc certifications required when setting that up for use in a large company.

Not sure about a startup, though, maybe they’d roll the dice.