The End of Software as We Know It LinkedIn Discussion
LinkedIn discussion on The End of Software as We Know It by Peter Beck. Notable contributions: Simon Wardley connected Moldable Development to Situation Oriented computing. David Kirwan proposed the COBOL analogy: SaaS will not disappear but become durable systems of record, while innovation moves to the agent layer above. Tobias Becker identified the governance gap as the core challenge. Chris Richardson challenged the SaaS collapse thesis. The discussion led to several improvements in the original article, including paradigm coexistence, the SaaS-as-COBOL framing, and the business model uncertainty of Genesis-stage computing.