Puri: Enterprise and habit-driven software will resist AI commoditization
Shaan Puri · I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis · Jan 24, 2025 · at 31:58
Sean Puri pushes back against Andrew Wilkinson's thesis that AI code generation will commoditize software business models.
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“So you have software where there's already habits. Those will be safe software where the value is the people or the data. Those will be safe. Software where the value is in the enterprise relationship, the service that's on top of it, or the like fine tuning and tailoring and the CYA, which is that if I buy enterprise software, I'm, I don't need to save 40% on this bill as much as I need to not get fired for being like, yeah, we homebrewed our entire CRM and like the security wasn't very good, right? Because we didn't, I made this in fucking Claude instead of it being software I bought from a vendor that's been doing this for 15 years and has actually like solved the security vulnerabilities. And so I think that enterprise software will be safe. So I think a lot of software will be more safe than software just as a category goes to zero.”
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