Kilpatrick: Combining Existing APIs with AI Unlocks Viable SaaS Businesses
Logan Kilpatrick · Google AI studio replaces your AI tech stack (full demo) · Feb 15, 2025 · at 19:15
Logan Kilpatrick, lead PM for Google AI Studio, explains how native function calling in LLMs dramatically reduces the engineering effort required to build software products.
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“What happens if you take five random different products, and you bring them all together, and you put AI in the middle? Like, that's actually, like, a real business all of a sudden. And the amount of work to do that is, like, actually pretty pretty small relative to, like, historical SaaS product solutions.”
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