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If AI can replace software engineers and other employees then why does Anthropic have around 3,000 employees with 600 engineers - growing at 537% over 2 years? And why do they have 342 open job roles right now? 90 of them in engineering.

@divlams @imbktan But if AI is so good at making software then the cost is tiny isn’t it? Just prompt it to make a Slack clone? The fact is it’s just not good enough to do that. At least, not now. Maybe never.

@andrewrogoff @imbktan Probably because the opportunity cost is too high, and Slack works well enough at an okay price point. None of the things you mentioned feel insurmountable for today's models, and they'll only get better over time.

Those people saying "SaaS is done" clearly haven't worked on real internal tools. Building something quickly is easy but maintaining it isn't. Internal projects need upgrades, bug fixes, onboarding docs, security patches, and someone to own them long after the original coder has left the company. Shipping shitty software is easy but keeping software useful, stable, and alive is the actual job.

I’d say a lot, but here are a few factors to give you an idea: APIs, webhooks, application environment for 3rd parties, granular permissions, delivery guarantees, GDRP compliance, low latency, message ordering, data residency etc. I’m curious - why do you think Anthropic haven’t vibe coded their own Slack if it's so easy?

@imbktan @andrewrogoff What makes for a “sophisticated” SaaS product? Slack is undoubtedly a complex product (lots of notification logic, primarily) - but I think someone with domain expertise could rebuild it given enough tokens.

@divlams @imbktan This is a really good question. I think it could do it for simple apps. But, when it comes to sophisticated SaaS products, I don't think next-token prediction over static training data will ever be good enough. For example, why does Anthropic use Slack?

@imbktan Why wouldn’t AI be able to do that maintenance? Upgrades/bug fixes/onboarding docs/security scans all seem like fairly tractable problems for AI to take on.

@dharmesh Absolutely spot on 👏

"Why should companies pay for SaaS (HR/CRM/ERP/etc.) when they could just vibe code them?" I get variations of this question or comment with some regularity (granted, it's sometimes just me talking to myself). Here are some biased (but hopefully, well-considered) thoughts: 1) I am a big proponent and user of vibe coding (what I call "agentic coding"). I do it every day, 7 days a week, including Sundays. It's amazing. 2) My company, HubSpot is a software company. We have hundreds of professional engineers -- just about all of them use AI for product development too. They are brilliant and know how to build production-grade products. 3) Even with this powerful army of talent, the number of internal, core SaaS applications that we have replaced with a vibe-coded variant is exactly ZERO. The number of applications we plan to replace is also exactly ZERO. 4) It's not the absence of talent that keeps us from rolling our own SaaS apps, it's the presence of focus. It would be silly to try and replace our HR, team collaboration, expense tracking and 100+ other SaaS apps we use when we can just buy them. Just doesn't make sense. 5) That's us -- as a software company at some scale. If you're a non-software company it makes even less sense for you. Doesn't matter how good the AI coding tools get. Let's say you *could* vibe code a replacement for that SaaS app you're using, who's going to maintain it? Who's going to keep up with industry trends? What are you going to do when the 20-something genius that vibe coded it over a weekend leaves the company? Who do you call when there's a major bug? 6) If you're a Fortune 500 company at some scale, perhaps you could pull this off for some discrete use cases and the tradeoffs are worth it. You have an IT/Engineering department that is larger than the population of some countries. You can take on the pain in return for the positives. For the millions of others, my advice is: Spend every calorie possible on creating value for your customers.

@jasonlk Sounds interesting, might come along. Will have to check prices later though. Just so you know.

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Morning bathrobe rant: vibe coding.

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@andrewrogoff Is it fully remote? Can we apply globally? I am an Indian citizen interested to apply for this.

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