Everyone’s at the AI party. I’d suggest talking about the morning after.
“Ask AI to recreate Salesforce.” — incredible, forty minutes later you have a free CRM.
“Rebuild Jira.” — twenty minutes later, a ticketing system, ready to go.
The conclusion everyone seems to draw? “SaaS is dead!”
Neat trick. Wrong conclusion.
What nobody is saying:
“Recreate a software identical to Trello” only works because Trello exists.
Behind the word “Trello” there’s a decade of product decisions. Visual boards. Drag-and-drop cards. Multi-user permissions. Browser-native architecture. Calendar sync. Parallel project management. Notification logic. Edge cases nobody mentions until they break everything.
You didn’t do prompting.
You summoned a ghost.
A ghost built by thousands of people over thousands of hours.
Now ask yourself: what happens when the ghosts are gone?
The real problem is the 90% you never say.
Delegating to AI this way is like hiring a brilliant person on their first day and expecting them to read your mind.
90% of what makes a great result is never written in the request.
It’s implicit. It’s context. It’s years of shared understanding.
It’s knowing what you really mean when you say “keep it simple.”
The collaborator isn’t the problem.
The missing context is the problem.
And right now, that context is borrowed — from software brands, from product categories, from industry conventions built over decades, from existing concepts with labels, constructed the traditional way.
This is a transitional moment. Not a permanent state.
We’re living in the gap between two equilibria.
The shortcuts feel like superpowers because we’re standing on everything that came before.
When that foundation shifts — and it will shift — what’s left?
When SaaS no longer exists, how will you say “create me a software identical to Trello”?
Trello won’t be there to represent an encyclopaedia of concepts in a single word.
Experience. Deep domain knowledge. The ability to articulate what you want with precision and depth. The judgment to know when something’s off, before you can even explain why.
These values were never replaceable. They’re just temporarily hidden by a very well-executed magic trick.
The party is loud. The morning after will be quiet.
Build accordingly.