Thoughts on AI – Jack Peplinski's Blog

Thoughts on AI

13 Jul, 2026

Sometimes people ask me similar questions about artificial intelligence (AI) or my thoughts on it in general. This post is a place I can point them to for my response.

I find most narratives about AI could be classified onto a 2x2 matrix of magnitude (high, low) and sentiment (positive, negative).

I’d say I’m in the high-high impact, high-medium positive space.

I’ve developed this position primarily from working with AI tools. The surface area of addressable problems has grown rapidly, and the existing problem space is ripe for improvements.

Below are a few questions I often get about AI and my responses:

Are you scared about AI taking your job?<br>Not at all.

If AI can 100% automate my job, I think AI will be able to automate wide ranging number of jobs, and there will be widespread economic upheaval. If that happens, I’ll have to deal with it then!

That being said, it is undoubtedly that AI is already changing my job and it will likely continue too.

Additionally, I’ve always felt that if AI automates my job, that means I’m free to work on other problems!

Is SaaS dead?<br>SaaS is changing. The underlying business model of paying for a frontend and backend services is likely less relevant.

In the future, I suspect we’ll see value driven not by front and backend, but by the operations, scale, customization, and reliability of these platforms.

The idea that companies will just vibe code all their software seems unlikely in my opinion. For example, you could bake your own bread and maybe it’d be cheaper, but how many of us do that?

Plus, decent software already isn’t that expensive. For example, Shopify (which I would suggest is great software) starts at just 37$/month. Most people would spend more in time promoting than just paying the fee at least when they get started.

What will happen to pricing?<br>Let’s work through an example: say you want to book a trip. You probably need transport to your destination, transport within your destination, and accommodation.

Currently, you may go to one or more websites, which may include an aggregator like Google Flights or Skyscanner, and compare options. You may use a platform like Expedia to bundle these or not. You may have criteria that is challenging to enter into common search fields or repetitive. For example, you may want a refundable room and want to search both rental by owner options (e.g., Airbnb, VRBO) and hotels.

With AI, theses searches become more convenient. Just enter all your specifications in a single prompt or refine your requirements as they come in a chat.

Without AI, you may need to visit multiple sites, enter the same search terms (some sites may have different filters so you’d need to adjust your searches), you’d need to make sure that the booking were equivalent, and then finalize your purchase. With AI, you can initiate the same prompt across multiple different sites, it will ask you any questions, map your prompt to the fields, and return the different options. I suspect this will reduce pricing because information will be more available.

Is the capital spend justified?<br>On this one, I honestly don’t know or have a firm opinion.