AI doesn't kill SaaS. It kills bad priorities

AI doesn't kill SaaS. It kills bad prioritiesWhy engineering leaders keep building tools they'll never finish, and three questions that stop the pattern.Erdinc AkkayaApr 30, 2026ShareA CTO showed me a dashboard last month. His team had built it. Developer metrics pulled from GitHub, looked clean, worked fine.I asked the obvious questions:Are you launching it to the org? Does it connect to Jira? You mentioned surveys, are those wired in?“Yeah, the surveys would be easy to add. We’ll get to it.”They didn’t get to it. They won’t.And that’s the pattern I keep seeing right now, the same one I saw in the 2010s, just with a new soundtrack:“We can build it ourselves. AI is killing SaaS anyway.”Maybe some tools will disappear.

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