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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Is the share market headed toward a ?SaaS-pocalypse?
(Tom Worthington)
2. Re: Is the share market headed toward a ?SaaS-pocalypse?
(Roger Clarke)
3. Re: Is the share market headed toward a ?SaaS-pocalypse?
(Tom Worthington)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:14:21 +1100
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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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? ...
The AI is going to have to get a lot better before we should trust
business, liberty or lives to it.
--
Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:59:33 +1100
From: Roger Clarke <[email protected]>
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> 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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Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected]
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Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA
Visiting Professorial Fellow UNSW Law & Justice
Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:41:53 +1100
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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On 2/23/26 08:59, Roger Clarke wrote:
> ... Investors, and execs in business and govt, are on a bandwagon. ...
At least some of the computer professionals will be cautious. I am
helping with the Software Construction course at ANU. Students have been
told that they can use AI for their assessed work. But they have to
provide the prompts they used and will only receive marks for their own
work, not what the AI does. Also if it is not clear who did what, the
student can be given an oral quiz and that be their mark.
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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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