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“While typing away at a WeWork in #SanFrancisco recently, your correspondent spied a plane flying across the skyline trailing a banner. “saas is dead,” it declared in huge letters. The #software #developers with whom he was sharing the #CoWorking space also noticed. “Thanks for reminding us,” one groaned.
The stunt, paid for by an #ArtificialIntelligence #startup, reflects the increasingly widespread belief in techland that #ai presents an existential threat to the software-as-a-service (saas) industry, which only a few years ago looked unstoppable.”
The market is still there, the spoils however are *hard problems* in technical areas like Medicine, Law using low level AI technology (RAG, custom LLM s, hardware) in specialised fields.
#SaaS / #SoftwareMarket / #SoftwareEngineering <https://economist.com/business/2026/06/10/fear-of-the-saaspocalypse-is-tormenting-techland> <https://archive.md/Rce9z>