Software Is a Constitution

With Fable 5.2, anyone can vibe code whatever software they want.

So what's the point of SaaS?

Think of software as a political constitution. When a team adopts a tool, they're making a shared agreement that things are going to work a certain way—and delegating the job of keeping that system coherent. Even when anyone can build their own software, there is real value in sharing the same rules.

The catch is that constitutions aren't all the same.

Most SaaS today works like an authoritarian regime. One person decides how everyone works, and the software enforces it. Companies used to accept that bargain because building an alternative was too expensive. Now they don't have to.

The alternative is a more liberal constitution. You set up clear primitives that keep the system coherent, and let the people doing the work decide how they want to operate with them.

You still get coherence. You just don't have to live under someone else's rules to get it.