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Only the Codex terminal agent is open source, the Codex GUI app is still closed AFAIK.

We stole all your work, just subscribe to get it back... now at $500/month.

Welcome back and godspeed.

We're being sold our own skill set back to us in a gated service that was created only because we allowed them to steal our intellectual property.

Paying for an IDE, course or fancy tools was paying for complementary additions instead of the core.

Just look at the, often smug, messaging of these companies. Your means of producing economic value are being centralized. The perceived and actual value of software products is being lowered, but some keep bragging about how a bot is doing their job.

Open-source models must win.

The referenced post has a very high change of being planted. The upvote count is an anomaly for a brand new account, few sentences, no link, Tell HN post.

I upvoted it by mistake, it looked genuine at first. However the comments contain a lot of "everything is awesome" responses without backing up their claims. The poster does not participate in the discussion at all.

I like HN but it seems to be getting spammed with hidden ads.

There's a lot of tech banter on Twitter and LinkedIn, much of which is noise you can filter out.

SaaS is not dead. People and businesses benefit from having relatively cheap access to maintained standardized software.

The "SaaS is dead" idea comes from some people using coding agents and thinking that companies will now produce their own internal software packages (CRM etc.) instead of buying in. Why would they bother?

However, highly-specific internal software might see interesting developments.

Have people naturally started sounding like an LLM when they write and talk? To me this article reads not fully human.

The agents are good enough to get results when an experienced person is properly guiding these tools.

However, during the holidays there was a big marketing campaign, mainly on Twitter. Everyone started posting the same talking points repeatedly and suddenly, and triggered a storm of fomo perfect for when everyone was not working.

There was no sudden huge jump, I've been using AI code tools since 2024 and was surprised to see this sudden hype when the tools worked ok before.

I see it the same way. Why would we rebuild a custom solution when $10 per user has it all?

SaaS was always about the service part and works better when other companies use the same tool.

Unique software specific to business needs will get more interesting though.

"Building X is easy now"... it was never hard if you had the patience to read docs.

We should be saying "Building X is faster now" instead. But I guess that doesn't induce god complex that effectively.

I've noticed a change in technical blog articles in the past 2 years. Why do most contain phrases like "everything changes", "not behind (yet)" etc.?

If you have a valid point to make, you don't need to force FOMO on the reader.