SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again

Opinion Say goodbye to the SaaS-pocalypse theory, which posits that advances in AI will bring the software-as-a-service market to its knees. Say hello to "a feedback loop with no natural brake." Or doomster porn, as others would have it.

At the beginning of this week, we woke up to a world where a single tech-related post could shake the US stock market and wipe billions of dollars off the value of favorites such as DoorDash and Uber.

According to the UK's Guardian newspaper, Citrini Research is a little-known US firm that provides insights on "transformative megatrends."

Nonetheless, the firm's blog post showed that it could have a big impact by jumping on the SaaS-pocalypse bandwagon and setting off some firecrackers.

Loosely, it imagines that the impact of LLM-based AI on the market for SaaS is such that by June 2028, US unemployment will hit 10 percent. Former Salesforce ...