Is AI (Mythos) finally going to destroy Software as we know it?!

I've been following how AI is growing over the past few years, and it has finally come closer to its "final" form.

I'm stressed and intrigued at the same time. Sadly, the first one is getting way more ahead. I'll start with a few examples:

• Home router getting hacked because AI found a vulnerability, which you didn't update
• Vibe-coded SaaS/App's leaking entire userbases with their credentials, getting owners sued for all kinds of things
• Access to all your internal VPN systems is compromised because Tailscale was hacked due to a vulnerability
• OpenClaw instances are getting pwned, exposing access to all your life

This is to list only a few potential issues, and there would be tens of thousands, and I'm even being sceptical here.

There are a LOT of good things that would come from this, just to mention a few:

• Autonomous systems will be way smarter and more helpful, making it easier for the mass user to get better at tech
• Self-driving (autopilot) would become way better, enabling people to travel who can't drive, or are too old, scared, etc

In general, the "Software" problem would be solved. All of us engineers would change the way we work. "Code monkeys" would disappear, and lower junior positions would be crazy hard to get.

Architects would be needed even more than now. Not because it won't be able to architect it, but because you'll want it to be tailored to your needs. We'll have much more personal software, which is not for commercial use. I even built my own email marketing platform to use internally, so I don't have to pay big monthly fees. I wrote 0 lines of code to it.

If you're a junior developer or thinking of starting in the space, you should get the best you can with AI. The only thing that will differentiate low-tier from top-tier engineers would be how fluent they are in AI and the coming changes.

SaaS would mainly shift to API first, or at least API required. It's simple, and I've kind of seen it first hand. It started years back with n8n, make and similar platforms. Most businesses started offering n8n, zapier workflows for free, which means they already had a public API (for the non-technical, simply put it's a way to use their platform that is not visible to you).

I even saw it in my own business (PostFast), customers started asking about MCP's, plugins, API usage, and it shifted towards having them automate their whole marketing with AI through the platform, OpenClaw, or similar tools.

I hope that AI won't be killing my SaaS, but it's not impossible. Like most SaaS could be replicated already. Making sure the niche is hard, or there is something that people don't want to do (like getting approvals from platforms in my case, or third-party failures, etc) is quite important. If the only thing a software/company is doing, is just selling something that does A -> B, it'll go down on revenue for sure.

This doesn't mean all SaaS would be gone, or software would be gone. Quite the opposite though. It'll be just way more fragmented, as it becomes WAY cheaper to build for yourself.

The only thing I'm scared is the whole ecosystem collapsing. Imagine Cloudflare, AWS, or Google getting hacked, and leaking user data, or even just credentials for instances? This would destroy businesses in a heartbeat.

Don't imagine that the above scenario is impossible; quite frankly, the release of Mythos only to a few chosen enterprises is the exact fact that they even thought this would be possible.

I'm not a doomsday person, but let's hope robots are better than humans.