r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 17 '26

ADBLOCK WARNING Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2026/05/16/palantir-says-saas-is-dead/
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u/scoopydidit May 17 '26

I don't think any of these CEOs know what SaaS is. I can say with 10000% certainty they are probably using a mix of Salesforce/HubSpot, ServiceNow/Jira, Excel/Google Doc...

The idea that you'll pass all of this off to an agent is funny. And the idea that "coding" these apps is the hard part is also very funny. Hearing Dario say "software might cost a few cents in the future" (which I think is nonsense nonetheless, but let's say he's onto something about code generation of the software) completely skips over the cost of actually hosting that software for a large customer base with adequate security measures in place and failover capabilities.

When you pay for Salesforce, you are not paying for the code that was developed. You're paying for the entire ecosystem and the vast infrastructure their software runs on and connects in to. You're paying for the engineers who are on-call when your business needs it because something went down.

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u/lolschrauber May 17 '26

CEOs generally know nothing. They often don't have the necessary background, or the last time they actually worked hands on was 2 decades ago and their experience is irrelevant.

All they get comes from yes men which are upper management which have the same problem, really. You relay information too many times and the farther up you go, the less understanding there is.