>That was your argument, right?

I wasn't intending to make an argument, I was specifically replying to:

>does not mention a single specific SaaS subscription he’s cancelled

I was imagining it could start a thread of examples where it's happened.

>would they have chosen you to do the replacement, or someone who had recent experience in the tech?

I get what you're saying, but those aren't the only two options; they very likely would have chosen neither of those options. The resources we had available was an ops guy who is pretty handy with the LLMs.

I get the point you're making, I really do. My counterpoint is that there are some SaaSes out there that people can build replacements for by using the LLMs at no incremental cost.

>I am skeptical that the company failed to leave the SaaS earlier because they didn't want to eat the cost of a 1.5 paid days for an employee

Sure, I'd be skeptical about it when put that way as well. That's not how it played out however: We were having a retro and the guy running it said that our subscription was expiring the end of the month and wanted discussion about whether we wanted to purchase it for another year. 2 weeks later, before our next retro, I threw a prompt at Claude Code and asked a couple people to try out the result, incorporated their feedback and we ran the retro on it. We aren't planning to renew.

This was not something "the company" had a big discussion about; my boss made an offhand comment about it, and I did it as a side project while I was doing something else.