[LINK] Is the share market headed toward a ‘SaaS-pocalypse’

[Roger Clarke]

> On 2/21/26 14:28, Stephen Loosley wrote: 
>> Is the share market headed toward a ‘SaaS-pocalypse’ – and what would 
>> that mean? ...
>> By Jonathan Barrett Guardian Business editor Sat 21 Feb 2026 01.00 AEDT
>>
>> Why would you pay for bespoke accounting, sales analytics, logistics 
>> or project management software when you could just ask ChatGPT, Claude 
>> or Gemini to do it? ...

On 23/2/2026 08:14, Tom Worthington wrote:
> The AI is going to have to get a lot better before we should trust 
> business, liberty or lives to it.
Unfortunately, "should" hasn't got much to do with it.

Neither ethics not rational management is involved.

Investors, and execs in business and govt, are on a bandwagon.

If the bandwagon's heading for a cliff, they'll start jumping off the 
wagon woefully late, and some far too late to save their investors and 
all the other stakeholders.

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