As noted by the Harvard Business Review in 2022, SaaS companies are thought of as money-printing machines because they’re on the monthly subscription model, like Netflix, but boring. The sudden frenzy over agentic tools like OpenClaw seems to have conjured a vivid mental image: millions of IT workers across the world smashing the “unsubscribe” button en masse. These SaaS companies themselves are, quite reasonably, demonstrating that the nightmare many are envisioning hasn’t actually come true.
As a sort of proof-of-life exercise, a collection of private software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies recently posted their earnings despite it not being strictly necessary, according to Bloomberg.
I’ve been vibe coding small apps for myself so I understand the sentiment. Often the SaaS versions have way too many features which I will never use but need to pay. So vibe coding a small part of it is very tempting because you get what you need.
You’ve been what now? Vibe coding. You mean where people like me, who have absolutely no fucking idea what they are doing when it comes to programming, use a broken fantasy tool that spits out a statistical calculated interpretation of what it thinks I would want but it’s actually just a pile of slop? That kind of vibe coding? Where I can pretend to be a computer programmer!?
Wonder if I can vibe playboy next? Maybe I can vibe billionaire or be a vibe prime minister! All sorts of fantasies that AI can help make for me!
No, I’ve been a Programmer since 2004 or so, I went to university and have a bachelor in Computer Science and work as a Solutions Architect in the Automobile industry creating so called Software Factories for our customers like Volvo, Daimler Benz, Hyundai Mobis, Jaguar Landrover and many smaller not so known brands.
So it might b e that my vibe coding is different to yours, fair enough. I know what the code should look like and I’m learning by doing to guide the AI towards this goal by describing an architecture, by defining tests and checking the code manually before it’s committed, at least to some degree.
My latest adventure is a gemini:// protocol static file server https://git.jeena.net/jeena/pollux
