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Databricks CEO says SaaS isn’t dead, but AI will soon make it irrelevant
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↗What Happened
AI isn't going to replace major SaaS apps with vibe-coded versions, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi believes. But it could give rise to competitors.
Our Take
Ali Ghodsi's hedging. SaaS isn't irrelevant—it's got network effects, lock-in, data moats that won't disappear. Yeah, AI could spawn new competitors, but you're not replacing Salesforce with a vibe-coded prompt. The real disruption is margin compression for tooling that doesn't have defensibility. Databricks itself is betting on data being defensible; he's not wrong, just talking around it.
What To Do
SaaS with moats survives; generic tooling gets commoditized by AI.
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