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Exclusive Article 3 Stocks to Avoid as Software Sector StumblesSubmitted by Dan Schmidt. First Published: 1/17/2026. 
Article Highlights - Software stocks have struggled over the last few months, especially those in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry.
- SaaS firms face substantial disruption from AI agents like Claude Code, which can automate entire workflows and eliminate the need for expensive software licenses.
- Salesforce, DocuSign, and Atlassian could be three industry stocks at risk of losing revenue to new AI tools.
The software sector has already seen more carnage this month than the finale of Game of Thrones, and we're still only halfway through January. While many stocks in this industry have been suffering extended drawdowns since early 2025, large software firms received additional bad news this week after a new update to "Claude Code," the agentic coding tool for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet AI bot. Claude Code was actually launched last year, but this month's update has renewed pressure on several legacy software names. Is the selloff overdone, or are software stocks facing a prolonged bear market? Why 'Claude Code' Has the Software Sector Spooked Claude Code is sending shockwaves through the tech sector thanks to its fully autonomous design. Unlike early AI agents that produced snippets of code for specific tasks (for example, bug fixes), Claude Code functions as a complete command-line system. This disruptive approach lets developers integrate their workflows into the AI for writing, testing, and debugging. Instead of acting as a personal assistant or editor, Claude Code's agents can oversee an entire task from start to finish, executing high-level design of software stacks with minimal human oversight. Elon's Next Market Move Could Send Silver Soaring
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Why? Because silver is the lifeblood of EVs, solar panels, and AI tech. Smart money is already watching silver closely. A recent account from a Google engineer helps explain why Claude Code has unnerved SaaS companies. Earlier this month, Gemini API developer Jaana Dogan went viral after claiming Claude Code reproduced a year's worth of her team's work in about an hour. If that level of automation becomes widespread, it's a nightmare scenario for SaaS firms that derive a large share of revenue from annual licensing. Analysts at Oppenheimer highlighted this risk in its downgrade of creative design giant Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) earlier this week, arguing that software has shifted from being an AI beneficiary to an AI casualty as these tools advance. 3 Software Stocks to Avoid as Sector-Wide Panic Ensues Adobe shares are down more than 25% in the last 12 months, but it isn't the only software stock under pressure. The three names below all face material headwinds from the growing role of AI in workflow productivity. Salesforce: Agentic AI Risks Cannibalizing Key Business Salesforce Inc. (NYSE: CRM) is the original SaaS company, having gone public early enough to capture the coveted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) ticker. Salesforce offers a broad suite of cloud-based business platforms and historically relied on significant revenue from licensing its platform to large enterprises. If multiple AI agents can replicate the work of hundreds of human reps, Salesforce risks losing a substantial portion of that high-margin license revenue. The company has spent decades building a complex cloud ecosystem that some modern businesses now view as cumbersome and expensive, making it more vulnerable if those customers can replace human workflows with autonomous agents. 
CRM shares staged a brief rally in December, breaking above the 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages (SMAs) before Adobe's downgrade and the latest Claude Code update hit the market. On Jan. 13, CRM plunged 7% in a single session, slipping below both the 50-day and 200-day SMAs amid renewed selling pressure. A bearish crossover appears to be forming on the moving average convergence divergence (MACD) indicator, suggesting this selling may not subside soon. DocuSign: A Middleman at Risk of Being Cut Out DocuSign Inc. (NASDAQ: DOCU) benefited massively from the work-from-home shift that followed COVID-19. At the pandemic's peak, DOCU shares surged toward meme-stock territory, trading above $300 per share and inflating the company's valuation. But like many COVID-era winners, DocuSign has cooled as interest-rate pressures mounted, and it now faces the risk of obsolescence. DocuSign's struggles began as e-signature functionality became bundled into larger platforms like Microsoft 365. Furthermore, the company's Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) could be bypassed entirely as AI agents become more customized and enterprises prefer to negotiate and manage agreements inside their own systems. 
DOCU shares recently hit a new 52-week low and face stiff resistance at the 50-day SMA. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) sits in oversold territory (below 30), and selling volume is starting to ramp up — not a promising technical setup for optimistic investors. Atlassian: Potential Obsolescence From Autonomous Workflows Atlassian Corp plc (NASDAQ: TEAM) is the Australian SaaS firm behind widely used workflow tools like Jira, Confluence, Trello and Bitbucket. If you collaborate on projects, you've likely used one or more of these platforms recently. Although Atlassian has been integrating AI into its suite, it still faces the risk that autonomous agents like Claude Code could centralize and simplify workflows in a way that makes some standalone Atlassian products redundant. 
TEAM shares were rejected at the 50-day SMA and have fallen in seven of the last 10 trading days, losing more than 15% in the process. A bearish MACD crossover confirms the latest leg of the downtrend, and the stock risks erasing more than two years' worth of gains if this weakness persists — a scenario that currently looks likely.
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