Working with Shannon. Talks about AI cannibalism and what is happening to the SaaS (software as a service) model. This came from an article on X - twitter (link). Steve sent it over to Alan and I to read. Anyways, I was reading it and Shannon was taking some notes. I was then drawing about how people are using AI and where things are going. I was showing 2 main things... companies need to use AI or be left behind. If they do use AI, especially SaaS companies, they are basically cannibalizing their own products and services.

Notes from Shannon - summary of the article on X:

- Biggest irony in tech history... earnings are up and stock is down

- Huge companies invested tons in AI and ironically it is hurting them

- No AI, you are left behind. Yes AI, and it will start to cannibalize your company

- AI doesn't make software companies stronger, it makes them obsolete

- AI is replacing the software that these companies are selling

- If AI can write code, automate flow, do X, Y, and Z - all for pennies - why would you pay for software?

- One AI agent replaces 10 seats, One prompt replaces months of custom development, One LLM call replaces entire software categories

- Companies that invested most in AI are hurting the most

- Companies enabling AI (hardware) made money

- Hardware up and software down

- The AI world needs GPU's (graphical processing unit)

- Don't need software subscriptions when AI can build it for you

- Investors question - will your business survive the next five years?

- Software earnings were up, but stocks were down. How do you compete with free?

- AI is getting more reliable - you don't have to rely on these older SaaS software packages

- One of the biggest market shifts in history - $500 Billion gone in market value in one day

Shannon and I were talking about what the models are going to look like - drawings... molecule (mash-ups) vs a systemized approach. with AI, it will take the mash-up and really make it even more complicated. Little microservices - more than just a mash-up, it will become soup... just being silly - see attached for a small drawing. In the drawing, I was showing Shannon that we have to use it, meaning AI. Most people and/or companies fall into one of three models. The do it yourselfers (pen, paper, spreadsheets), the mash-ups (molecule type model - trying to mix and blend together), and the systems and platform models. Adilas is a platform model. We would love people to add in AI over the top of what we are already doing. It will just make it richer and better and better. Once again, see the drawing for more info.

Building on a platform that supports AI add-on's - we have the engine to build on top of - the platform - really pushing the platform and how it can service the user needs and requests.

Some of our plans... for helping AI do things... see element of time # 12392 - this entry covers user defined prompts, chaining prompts (multiple prompts in a row or sequence), and how to use AI to help do even more

- Switched to reading over the investment options and opportunities for adilas. Read over some new rules from element of time # 12645

As Shannon and I were talking - I was saying that hyperlinks are my way of gathering things... I can interconnect almost anything using a hyperlink. That is awesome.

We read over the entry on 12645 (see link above) and worked on redefining certain pieces. We aren't trying to get perfect verbiage at this point, more along the general flavor lines. Great session.