{"id":93983,"date":"2025-08-26T13:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93983\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:16:20","slug":"the-ai-agents-are-coming-for-saas-by-enrique-dans-enrique-dans-aug-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93983\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI agents are coming for SaaS | by Enrique Dans | Enrique Dans | Aug, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"noopener follow nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@edans?source=post_page---byline--2706a5fde48d---------------------------------------\" data-discover=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enrique Dans\" class=\"m fd bx by bz cx\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2*rYxmtnMlMLrGyIc30itIvw.jpeg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"authorPhoto\"\/><\/a>Press enter or click to view image in full size<img alt=\"IMAGE: A retro-futuristic robot holding a bloody knife looms over the crumbling remains of the word \u201cSaaS,\u201d symbolizing AI agents destroying traditional software models\" class=\"bh fw om c\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"011c\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph on oo is op b oq or os ot ou ov ow ox gn oy oz pa gq pb pc pd gt pe pf pg ph hp bk\">There are times when a hypothesis is more than just another statement, and becomes a mirror reflecting the age we live in. <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/jeremyblaze.com\/?ref=masterminderfooter\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Blaze<\/a>, after years designing <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_as_a_service\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">SaaS applications<\/a> and establishing himself as an authority in the field, now argues that <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/after-years-designing-saas-apps-jeremy-blaze-thinks-ai-going-kill-most-1733036\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">these systems will disappear with the rise of AI agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"627d\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph on oo is op b oq or os ot ou ov ow ox gn oy oz pa gq pb pc pd gt pe pf pg ph hp bk\">It might sound dramatic, but his assessment resonates with <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/microsoft-ai-business-agents-will-kill-saas-by-2030\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">recent Microsoft statements<\/a>, which likewise <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devopschat.co\/articles\/microsoft-ai-business-agents-will-kill-saas-by-2030\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">predict the decline of SaaS due to the emergence<\/a> of <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agentic_AI\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">agentic systems<\/a>. In this article, I aim to explore that premise through a reasonably rigorous lens, while also offering a hands-on perspective rather than a purely theoretical one: <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bain.com\/insights\/the-great-debate-will-agentic-ai-kill-saas\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">how feasible is it that agentic systems will replace SaaS as we know it<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p id=\"095f\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph on oo is op b oq or os ot ou ov ow ox gn oy oz pa gq pb pc pd gt pe pf pg ph hp bk\">After more than a year working with agent-based systems, I would say the answer is yes. These agents move us closer to the theoretical ideal of a <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G%C3%B6del_machine\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">G\u00f6del machine<\/a>, a system capable of self-reprogramming efficiently after proving its next version is superior. This is no longer science fiction, but rather a natural outcome of building agents that can adapt, learn, and improve autonomously toward a defined goal.<\/p>\n<p id=\"053b\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph on oo is op b oq or os ot ou ov ow ox gn oy oz pa gq pb pc pd gt pe pf pg ph hp bk\">Blaze\u2019s argument isn\u2019t conjured from thin air; it stems from deliberate and challenging practice. He\u2019s evolved traditional SaaS interfaces \u2014 from <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/saasinterface.com\/pages\/forms\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">form-based<\/a> and <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/arounda.agency\/blog\/saas-dashboard-ux-trends-guidelines-and-fundamentals\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">dashboards<\/a> to <a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/uibakery.io\/solutions\/crud-forms\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CRUD flows<\/a> (<a class=\"ag hn\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Create%2C_read%2C_update_and_delete\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Create, Read, Update, Delete<\/a>) \u2014 into\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press enter or click to view image in full size There are times when a hypothesis is more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-93983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}