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Traditionally, business applications in the SaaS model were built with a thin user interface layered atop a database. The fundamentals of these applications consisted of CRUD operations—creating, reading, updating, and deleting data. Nadella's vision indicates that this model will dissolve, giving way to sophisticated AI systems that directly interact with databases without the need for intermediary applications.
This shift raises numerous questions about the future of the software industry. Developers may see a reduction in demand as the complexity of traditional applications diminishes in favor of simpler, agent-driven interfaces.