Hot take: traditional SaaS is being eaten by AI-native alternatives.

And this is creating the biggest job market shift in enterprise tech.

Traditional SaaS: complex dashboards, manual workflows, feature-bloated interfaces. You hire an admin to manage the tool.

AI-native alternative: describe what you want in natural language. The AI handles the complexity. The interface is a conversation.

It's happening across every category: AI-native CRM vs Salesforce. AI-native analytics vs Tableau. AI-native project management vs Jira. AI-native customer support vs Zendesk.

Not all traditional SaaS will die — many will evolve by adding AI layers. But the companies that are AI-first have a structural advantage in user experience.

Job market impact: massive demand for engineers who can build AI-native applications from scratch. Not adding AI features to existing products — rethinking the product from the ground up with AI at the core.

The skills: LLM application development, agent workflows, natural language interfaces, conversational UX design, and the ability to think about user problems without assuming a traditional UI.

If you're an engineer at a traditional SaaS company, start learning to build AI-native experiences. Your current company needs this skill to survive, or your next company will be the one disrupting them.

The enterprise software market is $700B. The portion being rebuilt as AI-native is the biggest career opportunity in tech right now.