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One angle thats underappreciated here is discovery. Even if the SoR survives as the backend, the interface layer is shifting to AI agents and assistants.

We've been looking at how LLMs actually recommend software tools (audited ~150 B2B SaaS across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) and there's a massive bias toward products with clean, parseable documentation and structured data. The "vibe-coded" replacements often win here not because they're better products, but because they're easier for an agent to read and integrate with than a legacy SoR hiding behind a login wall or a PDF.

If your product is invisible to the agent doing the recommending, the quality of your backend stops mattering. Has anyone else noticed this shift in how enterprise software gets discovered?