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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sara Wilczynska, a 41-year-old watercolor artist and founder of Swil Arts who lives in San Diego. Prior to her art career, she worked as a software engineer in the finance and tech industries before quitting her job at Google in 2022.…
A SAP executive says the “pendulum will swing back” from the SaaSpocalypse.Like many software companies, the German software giant has seen its stock hit hard over the past year amid competition from AI tools. This stock sell-off of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, known as the SaaSpocalypse, has hit companies like Salesforce,…
Artificial intelligence was supposed to kill software-as-a-service. Linear didn’t get the memo.The startup behind a popular product management tool has doubled its valuation to $2.5 billion and surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, defying the ongoing narrative that AI will make traditional software companies obsolete.”I think the narrative is…
After years of layoffs, businesses are hiring more software engineers — but the rebound is spread unevenly.As of the first quarter of this year, nearly 70% of US software development job postings on Indeed were for senior-level roles, rather than mid- or entry-level. That’s up from 55% in early 2019.Of…
The founder of one of legal tech’s buzziest startups says a move away from the software seat was only “a matter of time.”Since the rise of cloud software, companies have mostly charged for it by the user. A business bought a subscription for a set number of licenses, or “seats,”…
OpenAI is launching a new product that could help the company take another step beyond the ultra-competitive business of making AI models.The offering, called OpenAI Presence, helps companies run AI agents better by connecting these systems to internal corporate data, policies, existing software, and workflows.It’s designed to automate parts of…
The angst over China’s latest AI models is missing an important business fact: “open weight” AI is not the same thing as open-source software.Open-source software, where the code is freely shared, can be an amazing business. Think Red Hat, which IBM bought for $34 billion. Open-weight AI models are different…
