{
  "id": 5228,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26482v2",
  "title": "The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes the Economics of Enterprise Software",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "David Klotz",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-29T09:47:47.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:35.575Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/5228",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26482v2",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}