Coding agents may zero out switching costs, resetting SaaS moats

A debate over moats in the agent era concludes most classic moats survive LLMs, but switching costs are the key exception: coding agents can trivially handle migrations that are costly for humans, pushing enterprise switching costs toward zero and resetting SaaS moats.

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