McKinsey: 32% of companies skipped buying new software this year and built it with agents instead

Reddit r/artificial 09/13/26, 09:46 AM News

Summary

McKinsey's State of AI 2026 survey shows that 32% of companies, including 41% in tech, built software in-house using AI agents instead of buying off-the-shelf solutions.

This is from McKinsey's State of AI 2026 survey (published late August), not just a headline stat: 32% of organizations decided against an off the shelf purchase and built their own solution with agentic coding tools instead, 41% in tech specifically. Curious if anyone here has actually killed a real software purchase because an agent made building it in house viable, or if this shows up more in survey answers than in actual budgets.

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