The so-called death of software had a false-start earlier this year, but there are now two additional forces pushing in this direction: - security teams locking down vendor-hosted saas sprawl - cloud agents Over the past few weeks, we've seen a huge increase in security incidents. Everyone in-the-know recognizes that we're still in the early innings here, things will get very bad over the next 12-24 months This increases demand on security team resources, significantly. The bar for getting through security review as part of the vendor onboarding process will be very, very high -- perhaps 5-10x harder than before Simultaneously, we're seeing the rise of cloud agents, which companies are typically self-hosting in their VPC. A clone of a much-needed vendor tool is now one cloud agent thread away Hand Fable an ephemeral VM, the docs of the vendor you're considering, and let it cook overnight with Opus doing implementation The next step, obviously, is easy self-hosted deployments of these clones. It'll take a few months for the right patterns to emerge, but someone will nail it, then everyone will copy, and by February you'll have Jason Calacanis raving about "self-hosted cloneware" on the All-In Podcast