A question is increasingly being asked across the enterprise technology world right now: if coding agents can build enterprise software in hours, what happens to the platforms built to run it?

It's a fair question. But it's also the wrong one.

Advances in AI, and coding agents in particular, are notably reducing the time and cost required to build software. That shift is what has led to this question. Naturally, the assumption is that value migrates to whoever has the best model and that AI agents will eventually replace traditional automation entirely. But this misunderstands how enterprise software works. Probabilistic AI agents cannot replace the need for deterministic execution.

Historically, when a core input to an industry gets cheaper, what follows isn't consolidation. It's expansion. More gets built, more processes get addressed, more systems become autonomous. And every one of those systems still needs to be governed, audited, and connected to the workflows where actual business gets done.

This is why Business Orchestration and Automation (BOA) is becoming the most consequential architectural decision enterprises make. Not which model to use, not which agent framework to adopt, but BOA, the layer that sits underneath:........

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