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McKinsey flags AI coding agents shifting spend from buying to building
Sep 6, 2026SOURCE: indianeconomicobserver.com
SO WHAT
Over the thousand-day window, this pushes firms to treat software creation as a controllable input stream—choice narrows for tool vendors and widens for owners with compute and agent workflows.
Companies may reallocate software budgets toward agent-assisted development instead of purchasing tools. The signal is an inversion of “labor” into “mind,” accelerating phase transition timelines.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.