Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees
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Are AI agents employees or tools? A Microsoft exec suggested they're new paid "seats," a shift that could reshape SaaS pricing — and spark pushback.

Buried in the story was a deceptively simple question: does your AI agent count as an employee?

At a recent conference, Microsoft executive Rajesh Jha floated a provocative idea. In a future where companies deploy fleets of AI agents, those agents may need their own identities — logins, inboxes, and even seats inside software systems. If so, AI wouldn’t shrink software revenue. It could expand it.

  • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Private companies want the AI cash to ride the bubble. So they’ll use AI, or say they are, just to get the investment money. Doesn’t mean it’s good, true, or worthwhile, or efficient.

    The real test is what the open source community does. And right now, they aren’t doing what you’re doing. We’ll see what the future brings, but I don’t trust your gut any more than I trust my own.