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'Software Isn't Dead, But Its Cosy Business Model Might Be'


The software industry's decades-old habit of charging companies a flat fee for every employee who uses a product is running into a fundamental problem: AI agents don't sit in chairs, and they don't need licences. As autonomous agents take on tasks that human workers once handled, the per-seat pric...

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