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So you did one simple program.
SaaS involves a suite of tooling and software, not just a program that you build locally.
You need at a minimum, database deployments (with scaling and redundancy) and cloud software deployments (with scaling and redundancy)
SaaS is a full stack product, not a widget you run on your local machine. You would need to deputize the AI to log into your AWS (sorry, it would need to create your AWS account) and fully provision your cloud infrastructure.
Lol they don't need scaling and redundancy to work. They just need scaling and redundancy to avoid being sued into oblivion when they lose all their customer data.
As a full time AI hater, I fully believe that some code-specialized AI can write and maybe even deploy a full stack program, with basic input forms and CRUD, which is all you need to be a "saas".
It's gonna suck, and be unmaintainable, and insecure, and fragile. But I bet it could do it and it'd work for a little while.
That's not "working saas" tho.
Its like calling hello world a "production ready CLI application".
What makes it "working", is that the Software part of Software as a Service, is available as a Service.
The service doesn't have to scale to a million users. It's still a SaaS if it has one customer with like 4 users.
Is this a pedantic argument? Yes.
Are you starting a pedantic fight about the specific definition of SaaS? Also yes.
My CGI script is a SaaS.
Kinda.
Ignoring the pedantic take that nearly every website is a saas.
And the slightly less pedantic take that every interactive website is a saas
If your website is an app that does a thing that a user wants, it's a saas.
Your website just does mpeg to gif transcoding? That's a saas. Online text editor? SaaS. Online tamagotchi? SaaS.
If it doesn't scale to the number of users who want or need to use it, then it's not a very good SaaS. But SaaS it is.