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AI is collapsing the cost to build software. The big vendors are scrambling to respond — but the playbook they’re reaching for is 50 years old. From personalized monoliths to carrier wars, here’s how the enterprise software industry is about to replay history.
The Death of the Application Why Everything We Built Was a Workaround — And What Comes Next What if everything we know about enterprise software design is about to become obsolete? For forty+ years, we’ve built systems around a single assumption: humans need interfaces to accomplish tasks. We’ve designed screens, workflows, navigation patterns, and training programs — all because software couldn’t understand what users actually wanted. That assumption is dying. And it’s taking the traditional …
For most of my career, the build vs. buy decision in software has leaned heavily toward buy, especially in the enterprise. It is understandable. Buy is faster. Buy is safer. Buy comes with support, training, and a roadmap. But lately, I have been rethinking that bias. More accurately, AI coding assistants are forcing me to. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others have fundamentally shifted the landscape. We are entering a world where build is no longer …