Interesting thread from the other side — I'm building a SaaS invoicing tool right now and this question keeps me up at night. How long until someone just asks an LLM to generate an invoice PDF and skips my tool entirely?
My current bet is that the value isn't in generating the invoice itself (AI can do that), but in the persistent data layer — tracking who owes you, what's overdue, monthly income trends, client history. That's the part that's hard to replicate with a one-off prompt.
But honestly, the line keeps moving. A year ago I would have said "AI can't replace a full dashboard" and now... I'm less sure.
My current bet is that the value isn't in generating the invoice itself (AI can do that), but in the persistent data layer — tracking who owes you, what's overdue, monthly income trends, client history. That's the part that's hard to replicate with a one-off prompt.
But honestly, the line keeps moving. A year ago I would have said "AI can't replace a full dashboard" and now... I'm less sure.
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