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Satya Nadella states AI agents disrupt the standard software model by separating data from interfaces. Satya Nadella predicts rebuilding these components creates a market opportunity 10 times larger than before.
Engineering systems built to serve human mailboxes fail when applied directly to serving AI agents.
“…what I used to serve an inbox or a mailbox cannot be used to serve an agent.”
Satya Nadella views building a base platform layer for others to extend with custom intelligence as the primary goal.
“That idea that you can build a platform layer that someone else can then extend out and build their own intelligence layer in this case, I think is everything, right?”
From Nadella: Your AI IP Isn't Models, It's the 'Private Eval'
Software vendors currently package data models, business logic, and user interfaces together. Satya Nadella notes companies will dismantle this vertical stack and rebuild it around agent usage.
“…we had a particular way we captured workflow in apps right because we built a data model right we schematized some part of some business process then we built a bunch of business logic y and then we put a bunch of UI on top of it.”
From Nadella: Agents Force SaaS Unbundling, New Business Models
“…the challenge of the SaaS business model is we packaged one way. We now have to learn how to unbundle these things and re-bundle in new ways and discover new business models.”
Many employees spend their time on coordination and glue work. Satya Nadella explains long-running agents augment these tasks, shrinking complex processes and amplifying human output.
“…if you sort of think about a lot of human capital is doing the glue work, right? If you now can augment that with tokens {slash} agents that are long-running, durable, right, then your ability to scale even what is still judgment and glue work gets amplified like coding does.”
“…compressing of workflows, completing of tasks, that's where I think a lot of the value gets created.”
“…the value creation opportunity now in the agent world is in fact 10x more…”
From Nadella: Agents Force SaaS Unbundling, New Business Models
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