I wonder about this too. Although, cracking was always possible. So what changed is that people can now modify, improve proprietary software with zero technical knowledge. I can now tell Astra or Fable (maybe not Fable because of safeguards?) to add a feature to Adobe Photoshop and it might actually succeed even when prompting purely on a functional level (e.g. the functionality I want out of the program). It would take days, but I think it would succeed. Call it PhotoBench?

A future of all SaaS only works if you can't just tell a LLM what you want and get a custom implementation. I've always done a lot of personal projects, but my velocity has increased dramatically and I've replaced a number of projects that I used to pay for with custom ones that work well enough. I can't imagine that SaaS is going to be a viable model unless it involves a community that wants a unified experience, like a multiplayer game.

Non-SaaS, close sourced software is already dead, no? I think pretty soon we'll all be using bespoke software written by the AIs. I already use throwaway software designed for each job because it's so cheap to do so.

Most software organizations pay for is effectively a SaaS or something where software is a minor part of the artifact and support is where the real money is.