alt Hacker NewsWell, because no self interested decision maker in any company of size is going to ever trust their business to an unknown company run by a one person operation.
And why would the benefits of being able to code faster accrue to a small independent developer over a large company that already has an established reputation and a customer base?
“No one ever got fired for buying Salesforce”.
I once had influence over the buying decision to support an implementation I was leading. I found this perfect SaaS product by a one man shop who was local.
Working with my CTO and lawyers, we made a proposal to the founder. We would sign with him and be 70% of his post signing revenue if he agreed to give us our own self hosted instance and put his latest code in escrow with a third party (Green Mountain) and we would have non exclusive rights to use the code (but not distribute it) under certain circumstances.
He never said that companies will trust a one man shop. His point was clearly that people and companies will make products designed for themselves, using LLMs.
Why pay for a piece of software that you really only use 5% of all the features, and still may need customizations for. Vs just internally have somebody code a custom solution for your company.
The only benefit of a outside solution is that you can blame a outsider. Internal solution used to be bad because if the person with the knowledge of the codebase left, you ended up screwed. But with LLMs and "vibe" coding, there becomes a disconnect between the code and whoever wrote it. Making it easier to later make modifications on that same codebase, using ... LLMs.