Opinion: Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model

Developer Shrivu Shankar argues that all SaaS businesses will end up as harnesses around a stateless LLM — the infrastructure, interfaces, context and state surrounding the model. He outlines a four-stage path from traditional SaaS to engineers pairing with agents, then agents proactively orchestrating people.

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