Gen AI is opening up doors to company-wide innovation on a massive scale. But in this new era, leadership must carefully oversee its adoption to maintain code quality and mitigate technical debt.
In its infancy, gen AI is already transforming organizations and profoundly impacting IT strategies. But while language models (LLMs) accelerate engineering agility, they also open the floodgates to unprecedented technical debt accumulation. “Generative systems are likely to accelerate the amount of code that gets produced, so on that basis alone, technical debt will increase,” says Stephen O’Grady, principal analyst and co-founder at analyst firm Red Monk.
