Nadella: Business apps will collapse in the agent era, becoming dumb databases
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-11-08
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues business applications will likely collapse in the agent era: they're essentially databases with business logic, and that logic is moving into agents. Once AI holds all the logic, people will start replacing the backends — the SaaS you pay monthly for becomes a storage box agents write into.
The quoted article by @0xwhrrari complements this with an agent-engineering framework: decompose the system into harness, loop, and graph, covering what each layer owns, how they nest, and which to fix first when an agent passes every test but still doesn't solve the issue — built with Claude Code, Codex, and Grok Bot.
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