The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes the Economics of Enterprise Software
Advances in generative artificial intelligence, particularly agentic coding systems capable of autonomous software development, are disrupting the economics of the make-or-buy decision for enterprise applications. The "SaaSocalypse" narrative predicts that AI will render large segments of the Software-as-a-Service market obsolete by enabling firms to build software in-house at a fraction of historical cost. This paper adopts a conceptual research approach, combining transaction cost economics an
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Published: 29 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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