Adam Leventhal

Yeah, so, you know, Steve, bless you for saying that.

Whether it's, you know, whether Adam is putting you up to it or not, be like, watch him chomp down on this.

He won't question this at all.

He's like, you know, this guy loves the sycophancy of these LLMs.

You just give him a, you know, I feel like, I refer to the Jevons paradox actually in a keynote like nine years ago.

And I'm like,

I feel, but I must have, I mean, obviously it's like, I mean, it's, it's from the 19th century.

So it's like, I was clearly can't claim how much credit for it.

So anyway, but thank you.

Well, and so I think that we, and Simon, I think it's a very good observation.

I do think it dovetails into another three-year prediction that I've got, which is that we see much more custom-built software and much less SaaS.

So you get a lot of LLM-generated or assisted software that's running effectively custom software.

So you're developing software to put in production for yourself,

And you kind of care less about the stuff that's like, well, you know, yes, there may be things that you would care about if you made this available as a service to the internet.

Right.

Which I actually don't care because I actually am... And because one of the things that... I mean, when people consume software as a service, especially like the more niche it gets...

the more important it becomes to your business and the easier it is to have a real disconnect with your software provider.

And I mean, Steve, at Oxide, you were very much on the front lines of us replacing SaaS software with software that Steve wrote.

That was, I mean, Steve, you were...

Because you're going to get like, hey, my SaaS vendor, they're charging me too much money.