Why I'm Building SaaS in 2026

Every few months, someone declares SaaS dead. The argument has gotten louder in 2026: why pay for vertical tools when an LLM and a GitHub Action can do the same job in an afternoon? I've heard this pitch enough times - and built enough of those afternoon GitHub Actions myself - to know where it breaks. The demo always works. The Tuesday morning two months later, when the upstream API changes its response shape and your "AI agent" silently ships nonsense to customers, is where the wheels come off