SaaS Delusions Walked so AI Psychosis Could Run For a while now, I’ve been trying to find a way to illustrate and convey how over-reliance on SaaS ruins companies and lives. These days you really have to inspect a company to see if they actually do something unique and valuable or if they are just 45 different SaaS subscriptions in a trench coat pretending to provide value you can’t just create yourself in a weekend. I think we can relate the recent growth of AI-adjacent mental disorders directly to how SaaS-subscribers also grow more and more delusional over time. Over-reliance of both “AI” and “SaaS” tends to cause similar pathologies in susceptible individuals: unearned leverage execution - you get access to capabilities beyond your experience, education, or often even your ability to understand which leads to: capability dysmorphia - people who truly believe they are capable just because they clicked “launch now” on some SaaS dashboard (versus people who have spent 5, 10, 20+…
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