Tacit Knowledge and the SaaSpocalypse - by Chris Walker
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Why the hottest job in tech is the one AI can't replace
When Anthropic released Claude Legal this week, $285 billion in SaaS market cap evaporated in a day. Traders at Jefferies coined it the “SaaSpocalypse.” The thesis is straightforward: if a general-purpose AI can handle contract review, compliance workflows, and legal summaries, why pay for seat-based software licenses? It’s a fair question. But before the SaaSpocalypse had a name, something was already happening in the labor market that complicates the story. Last November, the Financial Times reported that monthly job listings for “forward deployed engineers” grew more than 800 percent…
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