saas on S Anand

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:30:15 +0000

Software companies build “SaaS”-like apps today. Agents will replace apps. Instead of UI, workflows, and app logic, they’ll engineer prompts, APIs, and evals. "

But apps need domain and code.

LLMs are crushing the coding workload. This lowers cost of development, increasing ROI (so there’ll hopefully be more demand).

So, will domain matter more? It might seem so. But most actually people use LLMs more as a domain expert than a coder.

I think LLMs will eat domain work too in software. Sure, we need domain expertise. But domain agents can fill that gap (maybe leading to even more demand).

But today, a great thing to do is to get a domain expert and a coder together in front of LLMs + coding agents and pair-program. Fantastically productive and creative.

Claude Artifact: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8fc253f0-01fb-44ff-b70e-359bc6cd0a23
Full prompts used to create the visual: https://sanand0.github.io/datastories/code-vs-domain/

Things I Learned - 16 Nov 2014

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This week, I learned:

List of Gen AI companies disrupting SaaS incumbents: LinkedIn

Google Spreadsheets

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:00:00 +0000

I got an invite for Google Spreadsheets. Very impressive AJAX interface.

Comments

Dhar 9 Jun 2006 11:36 am: Tried Google Spreadsheets. Love the concept, but I seem to be missing the Grand Picture. How is Google going to integrate things like Calendar, Spreadsheets, Notebook, Browser Sync to give us an “Aha” moment? The glue that should hold these applications together seems to be missing. Quite a few of them are very average and scratch the itch for a small section of web population. Nothing earthshaking like Gmail or search. :(
S Anand 9 Jun 2006 2:31 pm: Funnily, the very apps you mentioned (Calendar, Notebook, Spreadsheets and Browser Sync) are the ones I use the most – as much as GMail and search! You’re right, there isn’t much integration, except perhaps between Calendar and GMail. Maybe it’s coming. But even as standalone apps, I’m surprised at how much I use them. I’ll write about how I’m using these sometime…
Madhu 12 Jun 2006 7:03 pm: Its more when than how i think