Behold... the new lawnmower is out, all the companies that cut your grass are dead.
I can paint my house and I can change the oil in my car, but I prefer not to do it. I might host something personally, but self-hosting comes with cost, uptime requirements and bug fixing (by the AI and how would I verify the fix and possible regressions?).
A lot of B2B services exist to provide complete solutions. The business pays so it won't spend time/management resource/risk to nurse that solution.
With AI the cost of software will go down, no more 15$ per seat plans, but it won't go to 0 or self-host everything.
I can paint my house and I can change the oil in my car, but I prefer not to do it. I might host something personally, but self-hosting comes with cost, uptime requirements and bug fixing (by the AI and how would I verify the fix and possible regressions?).
A lot of B2B services exist to provide complete solutions. The business pays so it won't spend time/management resource/risk to nurse that solution.
With AI the cost of software will go down, no more 15$ per seat plans, but it won't go to 0 or self-host everything.