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AI Made Software Cheap to Build and Expensive to Rent

AI collapsed the cost of building software and raised the price of renting it. Those two facts point in opposite directions, and the gap between them is where owning your tools stops being ideology and starts being arithmetic.

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You Can Export Your Data. You Can't Export Your Business.

Every SaaS has an export button and the law says it must. What comes out is a folder of CSVs with the relationships stripped out, which is why the export button has never once stopped a price rise.

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