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32% of AI-Using Companies Are Skipping Software Purchases, McKinsey Finds

McKinsey’s Tara Balakrishnan explains how AI coding agents are changing enterprise software buying and why building in-house may not deliver lasting savings

Victor Dey 10 September 2026

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McKinsey's Tara Balakrishnan on why 32% of AI-using companies are building software instead of buying it, and why the savings may not survive the maintenance bill.

Companies are starting to turn down software purchases on the still-unproven bet that AI can help their own teams build what they need at a lower cost. Coding tools have made internal development plau...

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