Profound turn
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If you’ve been at all paying attention, people’s workflows are completely changing. People who know and have been working with AI now do almost everything in their AI agents. Summarize this data, reword this report, write this code, design this logo, etc. From data analysis to programming to crafting reports and architectural documents – all of it is changing overnight right before our eyes.
It’s no surprise that software companies are being forced to face this new reality. But this announcement from Intuit marks an interesting new second turn of software being absorbed into AI instead of just adding AI features as a bolt-on feature.
I’ve already heard of developers looking up simple apps and tools – and when finding the simple app cost $10 and not wanting to pay, simply asked AI to make the app for them. People are now using AI to completely generate everything from apps to things as complicated as compilers.
What does the world look like if you never have to buy software at all anymore. Even your grandma can just ask AI to make the exact software you need? The idea is profound and disturbing for the software industry but the reality is that it IS happening right now.
Many are probably correct in saying that any company doing software as a service (SaaS) is a dead man walking. Software won’t be going away – but anyone writing it likely will be. Maybe that’s why Computer Science grads have become some of the most unemployed college graduates since 2024.