The End of Renting the Small Things

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The article argues that AI app builders are making it easier to recreate the useful slice of SaaS products without buying the full application. It says this trend is strongest for small, personal, or internal workflows where a lightweight tool is enough. It also explains that many generated apps still rely on rented infrastructure, so the cost shifts from SaaS seats to cloud, database, hosting, and model usage. The piece concludes that the real change is not the end of SaaS, but the unbundling of small software use cases from full hosted products.

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