SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2025

AI-native startups are building products with fundamentally lower cost structures, leveraging large language models to deliver functionality that previously required massive engineering teams.

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Frontegg

JUNE 23, 2025

Integration with DevSecOps processes Integration of CSPM with DevSecOps processes ensures security is embedded in the entire software development lifecycle. It ensures that solutions are applied consistently across all detected issues, minimizing human error and freeing up resources.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2025

AI Will Reshape Technical Roles in 18 Months (or Less) : Data engineers will become orchestrators rather than code writers. I want to build a better churn detection engine. Business Users Drive More Consumption Growth : The biggest unlock isn’t more data engineers—it’s enabling any business user to query data like ChatGPT.

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SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2025

HubSpot now has 95% of their engineering team using AI tools daily, customers seeing 70-80% ticket resolution rates with AI agents, and a fundamental reimagining of what B2B software can be. Coding: The 95% Daily Usage Revolution Within HubSpot’s engineering organization, 95% of developers use AI-powered code generation daily.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Finally, well connect it all to the real world, exploring applications of trained LLMs in SaaS from AI copilots and chatbots to analytics engines and how theyre disrupting software as a service. So engineers remove exact duplicates and even near-duplicates. two forum posts that differ by a few words).

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Fault-tree analysis Fault-Tree Analysis (FTA) is a deductive failure analysis method used mostly in engineering (e.g. software development) to identify causal factors of a specific problem. Invite people from engineering, product, customer success, and support to give their perspectives. No exceptions.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

Think of it this way: an LLM is the engine (powerful but general-purpose), whereas an AI tool is the vehicle built around that engine (designed for a specific use-case, with a user-friendly interface and extra features). To summarize, an LLM is a powerful engine for language. Its also worth noting that not all AI tools use LLMs.

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Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Both are good but serve different purposes in software development and marketing. Recommendation engine: Suggest tailored products or content to users. If you need feature control in complex environments, LaunchDarkly might be better for you. Support LaunchDarkly has email and chat for real-time support.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2025

Social media is full of hot takes about AI replacing developers, the death of software engineering, and whether we’re all doomed or destined for greatness. The hard problems in B2B software were never the routine CRUD operations, user management, or basic integrations. Your engineering team stops being a bottleneck.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2025

83% customer query automation, 2 million lines of AI-generated code, and a hiring freeze for engineers because productivity jumped 30%+. The same engineering team that shipped 2 features per quarter is now shipping 6. Salesforce isn’t hiring engineers but is hiring 1,000-2,000 more salespeople to sell AI products.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2025

Implement AI tools across all functions, not just engineering. The Competitive Advantage : Companies that embrace AI-driven productivity will have 2x+ the revenue per employee of their competitors, creating massive profit margin advantages. Action Items: Measure and optimize revenue per employee aggressively.

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FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

The interesting thing about accessibility improvements is that there’s a lot that you do to the underlying HTML code that is also very good for search engine optimization. And this is something where increasingly we’re seeing a lot of software developers realize they need these because their customers are asking for them.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2025

The Bottom Line:AI isn’t yet revolutionizing sales the way it is transforming software development. By focusing their teams on establishing technical differentiation rather than sales efficiency, they could command premium pricing that dwarfed any operational improvements.

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User Pilot

MAY 31, 2025

Intercom Mobile is a suite of mobile software development kits (SDKs) that lets you embed customer messaging , support, and engagement into your mobile app. Its powerful segmentation engine lets you combine multiple attributes and custom events to create granular audiences for targeted campaigns. What is Intercom Mobile?

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Recently valued at over $1 billion , Codium is proving that AI-driven software development is not just the futureits the present. AI-Powered Coding is Driving Massive Productivity Gains: Codiums AI assistant is not just a flashy toolits fundamentally transforming software development. The real impact?

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Frontegg

MAY 7, 2025

As an experienced software development manager who’s spent years championing clean code and engineering best practices, I’ve always treated the SOLID principles as gospel. Why painstakingly engineer a class hierarchy to share code when the model can copy-paste (er, “generate”) similar code in multiple places without complaining?

Artificial Intelligence 52

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Computer adaptive instruction & testing Engineers 1.73 Automated sales coaching, AI sales development Architects, Surveyors, & Cartographers 0.28 Software engineers were the first to benefit with Copilot.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 31, 2022

There are roughly 27m software developers in the world. Those 18,000 active engineers have created $2 trillion in market cap across the top 100 projects - $112m of value per person. With such massive potential impact, why are there so few engineers working on web3? Crypto is young.

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Nimble - Sales

JANUARY 5, 2021

The post CRM For IT Industry: Software Developers, Cloud Engineers, and More appeared first on Nimble Blog. The industry is as exciting to be part of as it is ridden with all sorts of challenges, big and small, including lack of skilled talent, cybersecurity issues, lack of agility, outsourcing […].

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The patois of data teams has become a dialect of modern engineering teams because the commonalities in the stack. Data teams receive tickets from their internal customers & develop data products that serve both internal & external users, much like a classic product management & engineering team.

Software Engineering 207

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 30, 2020

There is a mega-trend underpinning the changes in data design philosophy and tooling: the rise of the data engineer. Data engineers are the people who move, shape, and transform data from the source to the tools that extract insight. We believe data engineers are the change agents in a decade-long process that will revolutionize data.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Recently, Philip shared his management techniques to run a data team like a standard product software development function with some key nuances. I asked him to join us on Office Hours to share his perspective because we believe data and software engineering practices converge.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So lots of folks talk about GitLab as a leading in software development and devops, but GitLab also has sort of a quieter cousin that also IPO’d: JFrog. JFrog started off as the #1 binary repository and has expanded from there as a multi-product suite for software development. 100k+ customers are the engine now.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. Selling to Developers Let’s look at software developers as your target customers, as users and buyers. Why should they care?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Deeper Bio: Early Life and Education Graduated with a Computer Science degree from The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo Demonstrated early interest in technology and software development Served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ Intelligence Corps, where he developed technical and leadership skills Early Career Began career as a software developer (..)

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SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

In fact, many founders and CEOs struggle with simply talking to their engineers and communicating their needs. The mysterious nature of engineers is also their superpower as they build products that make the seemingly impossible possible. At his core, Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and the CEO of Twilio second.

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TechEmpower SaaS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Rapid turnover, especially of senior or “A” developers. Developers aren’t aware of the progress of the current dev cycle, or even what’s in it. And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. Recovery is Extremely Hard Software development is challenging.

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2021

No engineering, no code! Accusoft is a software development company specializing in content processing, conversion, and automation solutions. Within minutes. UserGems helps companies generate more revenue by combining relationship data with trigger events to surface the most likely buyers for each company.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As engineers, one of the fundamental things we have to learn is the extent to which we can break things – how do we get the right balance between shipping safely and shipping fast? Almost 3 years in as a product engineer here, I have changed my perspective. As with everything in engineering, things are not black and white.

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Engineering Software Review Scale Systems Review 128

Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. Kubernetes, containers, serverless, continuous deployment have transformed software building. These technologies fomented a movement that has changed software engineering: devops.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Click here for UruIT’s Free Machine Learning Consultation – join a discovery session with our Machine LEarning engineers to identify opportunities of improvement by applying ML in your SaaS. What are they all about? during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’re in the modern era of software development. Traditional waterfall methodologies of the 80s and 90s are transitioning to more iterative agile development, and with that a DevOps culture has emerged. Companies are shipping software faster and more frequently, a shift that requires tools that can keep up.

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Software Development Development Software Scale 96

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

To get to what’s right for you, you need a tech partner with a deep understanding of your business needs, software development experience, data engineering skills and AI expertise. But there’s a big difference between an LLM implementation and the right implementation for you.

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FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2020

I am currently a Software Engineer at FastSpring. I work with my fellow developers on new features, fix any issues that come up on the platform, and I specifically work on the checkout experience for consumers around the world. That environment really motivated me to want to be a part of the engineering team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. These things are usually artifacts of some engineer’s Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The top ten technical strategies to avoid.

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