The 80/20 Principle

The 80/20 Principle

Lawyers have their own roadmap defense

The same shift that's killing enterprise SaaS pricing power is coming for the way you bill.

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Ernie the Attorney
Jun 12, 2026
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An article I read this week argued that AI coding tools have ended the “roadmap defense” in enterprise software. The argument goes like this: for thirty years, vendors rationed what got built. A customer asked for a feature, the vendor said “we’ll consider it for Q3,” and that was that.

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