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The answer is simple: the tech industry's desperate attachment to artificial intelligence is largely fueled by the Saas industry, because Al is the first meaningful new "thing" they've had to flog to customers in quite some time, and because so many of these solutions are sold in bulk on annual contracts signed by people who aren't the end user, artificial intelligence feels like something that they can put on top of another solution and claim it's new. Theoretically, Al seemed like manna from heaven. It was an entirely new industry that you can either sell services into (like data storage and processing) or build services using. Al has a near-mythical pedigree that makes braindead CIOs and CEOs that don't really know (or care) what their people do all day sit up and say "wow, I need to make sure we're using the bleeding edge of technology" to investors and partners.

It's hard to overstate the significance of a collapse of growth in the Saas market, as is it hard to overstate how dangerous generative Al is to its fortunes. While these companies had costs before, generative Al is multitudes higher than regular cloud compute costs, meaning that any new revenue growth from this software will be burdened by leveraging an increasingly-expensive solution to a problem that most of them have trouble describing. And if the revenue never arrives, they'll be faced with the same problem as the rest of the tech industry - that they've run out of ideas to generate growth. At that point, they'll have to reckon with the fact that there are too many software companies incapable of solving any problem other than "how do we find a new way to charge customers for something?"

I realize this is all a bit technical, but the very basic thing to know is that SaaS companies must grow, and their way of growing is growing and upselling ("expanding") customer revenue, and that specific thing is declining. SaaS sales teams are built to land accounts and then grow them using "customer success" teams that find new ways to "get more out of the software" using the customer's credit cards, which is why so many SaaS companies acquire completely different business units (like Salesforce, which just acquired a data protection and management company for $1.9 billion for some reason) as a means of further penetration into the customer's existence. And if that business model is dying - if customers are no longer as easy to upsell, let alone retain - then things are going to get desperate.

I don’t like my writing style as much back then but I’m proud of this piece from August 2024 about the collapse of the Software As A Service industry. I hadn’t learned finance fully at that time and thus didn’t think about the debt side! Rookie mistake
www.wheresyoured.at/saaspocalyps...

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someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

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She's a little spooky, chat...

Drunk thoughts...

Hell yeah I'll Jack off Daniels, why even ask???

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First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.

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That startled a genuine laugh out of me hahahha

What happened with webtoons? I saw some posts about issues before, but never saw what actually happened?

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

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Azerbaijan's President Aliyev called on Russia to accept blame.

so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this

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Always good to come home for the holidays

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