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by miki123211 87 days ago
SaaS companies have a big dilemma. Agents make your SaaS app more useful if there's no lock in and data is easy to access, but if that is the case, you have no lock in and the app is easy to migrate away from.

If you've already figured out what features are actually needed and which workflows work best, somebody can use AI to replicate those. This is the part of programming that AI is best at and accelerates most. The hard part, coming up with ideas, is far harder to copyright.