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Bonus News from MarketBeat 3 Stocks to Avoid as Software Sector StumblesWritten by Dan Schmidt. Article Published: 1/14/2026. 3 Stocks to Avoid as Software Sector Stumbles 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, big software companies received even more bad news this week from 'Claude Code', the new agentic coding tool for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet AI bot. Claude Code was launched last year, but a new update this month sent another round of pain through some legacy software stocks. Is this selloff overdone, or are software stocks staring down a prolonged bear market? Why 'Claude Code' Has the Software Sector Spooked Claude Code is sending shockwaves through the tech sector thanks to its completely hands-off design. Unlike early AI tools that wrote code snippets for specific tasks (for example, bug fixes), Claude Code offers a fully autonomous command-line system. This disruptive approach lets developers integrate their entire workflows into the AI tool for writing, testing, and debugging. Rather than acting as a personal assistant or editor, Claude Code's agents can oversee tasks from start to finish—handling high-level design, implementation, testing, and debugging of complete software stacks with minimal human oversight. A recent example from a Google engineer highlights why Claude Code has SaaS companies on edge. Earlier this month, Gemini API developer Jaana Dogan went viral for claiming that Claude Code recreated a year's worth of her team's work in just one hour. If a year's worth of work can be reduced to a single hour, that's a nightmare scenario for SaaS firms that derive the bulk of their revenue from annual licenses. Analysts at Oppenheimer noted this in their downgrade of creative-design giant Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE), saying software has shifted from being an AI beneficiary to an AI victim because of advances in these tools. Three Software Stocks to Avoid as Sector-Wide Panic Ensues For the first time ever, James Altucher – one of America's top venture capitalists – is sharing how ANYONE can get a pre-IPO stake in SpaceX… with as little as $100! [[Click here now to view.]] Adobe shares are down more than 25% in the last 12 months, but it isn't the only software stock in trouble. The following three names all face serious headwinds from the expanding role of AI in workflow productivity. Salesforce: Agentic AI Risks Cannibalizing Key Business Salesforce Inc. (NYSE: CRM) is the OG SaaS company, having gone public early enough to claim the coveted CRM ticker. Salesforce offers a comprehensive suite of cloud-based business platforms and long relied on substantial revenue from licensing its platform to large enterprises. But if several AI agents can now do the work of hundreds of human reps, Salesforce risks losing much of that high-margin license revenue. Adding to the pressure, the company has spent more than 20 years building a complex cloud ecosystem that many modern businesses view as cumbersome, inefficient, and expensive. 
Summary - 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.
CRM shares staged a brief rally in December, breaking above the 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages (SMAs) before the news of Adobe's downgrade and the latest Claude Code update hit the market. On January 13, CRM dropped 7% in a single session, falling below those SMAs again amid heavy selling. A bearish crossover appears to be forming on the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator as well, suggesting this selling pressure is unlikely to abate soon. DocuSign: A Middle Man at Risk of Being Cut Out DocuSign Inc. (NASDAQ: DOCU) was a major beneficiary of the work-from-home shift that began when COVID-19 hit U.S. shores. During the pandemic, DOCU shares reached meme-stock velocity, trading over $300 per share and sending the company's valuation to eye-popping levels. But like many COVID-era winners, the party ended when the Fed began raising rates, and DocuSign now faces the risk of obsolescence. DocuSign's struggles began years ago as e-signature capabilities were bundled into larger platforms like Microsoft 365. Additionally, the company's Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) could be bypassed entirely as AI agents become more customized and enterprises negotiate within their own software environments. 
DOCU shares recently notched a new 52-week low and continue to face strong resistance at the 50-day SMA. Investors looking for a technical silver lining aren't getting much: the Relative Strength Index (RSI) hasn't yet reached oversold levels (below 30), and selling volume is beginning to ramp up. Atlassian: Potential Obsolescence From Autonomous Workflows Atlassian Corp plc (NASDAQ: TEAM) is the Australian SaaS firm behind workflow staples like Jira, Confluence, Trello, Bitbucket, Loom, and Slack. If you collaborate on projects, you've likely used one or more of these tools. While Atlassian has been aggressively integrating AI into its suite, it still risks some platforms becoming redundant as agents like Claude Code make it easier to centrally integrate and automate workflows. Atlassian licenses several standalone platforms, and the irrelevance of any one of them could have a meaningful impact on the company's bottom line. 
TEAM shares were rejected at the 50-day SMA and have now fallen 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, which could erase more than two years' worth of gains if it continues.
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