• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    17 天前

    Lol they don’t need scaling and redundancy to work. They just need scaling and redundancy to avoid being sued into oblivion when they lose all their customer data.

    As a full time AI hater, I fully believe that some code-specialized AI can write and maybe even deploy a full stack program, with basic input forms and CRUD, which is all you need to be a “saas”.

    It’s gonna suck, and be unmaintainable, and insecure, and fragile. But I bet it could do it and it’d work for a little while.

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      17 天前

      That’s not “working saas” tho.

      Its like calling hello world a “production ready CLI application”.

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        What makes it “working”, is that the Software part of Software as a Service, is available as a Service.

        The service doesn’t have to scale to a million users. It’s still a SaaS if it has one customer with like 4 users.

        Is this a pedantic argument? Yes.
        Are you starting a pedantic fight about the specific definition of SaaS? Also yes.

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            16 天前

            Kinda.
            Ignoring the pedantic take that nearly every website is a saas.
            And the slightly less pedantic take that every interactive website is a saas

            If your website is an app that does a thing that a user wants, it’s a saas.
            Your website just does mpeg to gif transcoding? That’s a saas. Online text editor? SaaS. Online tamagotchi? SaaS.

            If it doesn’t scale to the number of users who want or need to use it, then it’s not a very good SaaS. But SaaS it is.