[mixdup]

But if that was a goal, or a marketable feature, SaaS and cloud would have competitors out there selling software with perpetual licenses to be run on premises

Yes, the vendors want subscriptions and cloud and not owning anything, but customers also don't want to hire people to operate the infrastructure required to run this stuff themselves. That's the whole point of SaaS, and why some companies just run entirely on that model and basically have no in-house IT staff

That AI means you can write and run your own payroll system doesn't mean all of a sudden a world of people with zero technical skills can start doing it on their own

[adrianwaj]

...unless they have an agent "IT Guy" who can either do it for them or show them what to do. Perhaps UIs will change and be designed half for a human operator, and half for the IT Guy to copilot with them.

The person with zero technical skills could start learning primitive technology: youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550 - living off the land really is the job for the unemployed. We've done it before! As long as there is a safe place to actually do it and a planet that can support it. Those'll be the problems.