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.

[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not "working saas" tho.

Its like calling hello world a "production ready CLI application".

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] barubary@infosec.exchange 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My CGI script is a SaaS.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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.