--- title: 90% of SaaS is Doomed. Here is How Developers Can... description: A prediction that 90% of traditional SaaS applications will be displaced by AI agents that interact directly with services via APIs, bypassing user interfaces... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dirvj6zhx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 90% of SaaS is Doomed. Here is How Developers Can Survive the Agent Era. | daily.dev og:description: A prediction that 90% of traditional SaaS applications will be displaced by AI agents that interact directly with services via APIs, bypassing user interfaces... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dirvj6zhx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DIRvJ6zhx.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 90% of SaaS is Doomed. Here is How Developers Can Survive the Agent Era. **[bladesk's public Squad](https://daily.dev/sources/bladesk)** · [@bladesk](https://daily.dev/bladesk) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A prediction that 90% of traditional SaaS applications will be displaced by AI agents that interact directly with services via APIs, bypassing user interfaces entirely. The post outlines six areas developers can focus on to remain relevant: brand and trust, fun and leisure, heavy compute and hosting, physical-world products, legally-regulated services, and agent infrastructure. The most actionable advice is to build agent-friendly APIs with pay-as-you-go pricing and expose headless agent skills rather than UI-centric products. Canva and Remotion are cited as examples of the agent infrastructure model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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