Damien Tanner, founder of Pusher and now building Layercode, returned to The Changelog after 17 years to argue that SaaS is dying and small teams are replacing large ones. Tanner was the podcast's first-ever sponsor. Now he's on the front line of AI agent infrastructure, and his framing is blunt: the economics of software have broken in favor of builders who move fast with minimal headcount.
The conversation gets specific on two pressure points. Code review is a bottleneck at most companies and has effectively disappeared at others. That absence is not a warning sign anymore, it is a workflow. Tanner connects this to a broader structural shift where AI agents are collapsing the labor curve, letting tiny teams ship what previously required dozens of engineers.
Read the full episode to follow Tanner's logic on why SaaS as a business model is the casualty here, not just the tooling. The show notes link to a technical breakdown of how Claude Code works by Jared Zoneraich of PromptLayer, which pairs directly with what Tanner is building at Layercode. That context is worth having before the rest of the industry catches up.
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