How does AI impact the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of software?
In Gartner's CIO Agenda 2027 research, 51% of CIOs expect AI to increase the total cost of ownership of software throughout its lifecycle, driven by higher defect rates, doubled code churn, security remediation overhead, and clogged review queues.
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The 7.7% Mirage: Why AI Code Generation Is Multiplying Maintenance, Not VelocityAI writes code many times faster, yet median PR throughput rose just 7.76% while code churn doubled. The bottleneck moved downstream.
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