Software growth will come predominantly from agents, vendor warns
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-08-30
Matt Slotnick continues: two categories of software will work in concert, but growth will come predominantly from agents. Software providers unsettled by this should dramatically rethink everything they're doing.
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