“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