McKinsey: 32% of companies skipped buying software this year and built it with agents instead
Separate_Pea_3699 · reddit · 2026-09-13
McKinsey's State of AI 2026 survey (published late August) reports that 32% of organizations decided against an off-the-shelf software purchase this year and built their own solution with agentic coding tools instead — rising to 41% in tech specifically.
The poster asks whether this shows up in real budgets or mostly in survey answers: has anyone actually killed a software purchase because an agent made in-house building viable?
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