Palantir’s top exec says SaaS is dead, but why not software engineering; says it means: Engineers can go and …
The traditional “Software as a Service” (SaaS) business model is officially dead, a top executive at data analytics giant Palantir has declared. Danny Lukus, a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies, claims that the rise of generative AI has made the old, expensive method of buying and configuring mass-market software completely obsolete.
According to a report by Forbes, Lukus noted that while SaaS might be on its deathbed, the news isn’t bad for software engineering. Instead, AI tools mean forward-deployed engineers can now build highly customised, ultra-specific corporate software in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost.
