No, companies won’t stop buying software
Companies are not going to stop buying software and start building everything themselves. That idea is not grounded in history. We can all cook at home, but restaurants are massive businesses. We can all make coffee, but people still line up at Starbucks.
The reason is simple: people and companies do not only pay for capability. They pay for convenience, reliability, speed, polish, support, trust, and the ability to focus on their own business. AI coding makes building software easier, but easier does not mean easy, and it definitely does not mean everyone should build everything.
I have been agentic coding for over 18 months. I enjoy engineering. AI coding is a great accelerator and confidence booster. But building a meaningful product at scale still requires architecture, permissions, integrations, UX, security, workflow design, support, and a lot of judgment. AI does not remove those challenges. It shifts where the hard work lives.
So no, I do not think companies will stop buying software. I think we will see more software everywhere. Some will be internal tools, and those tools will get better. But most durable software will still come from teams whose entire job is to build, support, and evolve it. AI will change who can build software. It will not change what it takes to build great software.
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