AI now touches three-quarters of enterprise code – New Relic’s Ashan Willy on agent debt and the re-defining of observability
For most of the observability category’s first decade, the job was detection. Code shipped, things broke, the platform told you which thing and where. That is no longer the hard problem, and not because anyone has gotten better at writing code.
AI now writes the majority of weekly code at most large US enterprises, and the engineer on call when it fails statistically did not write a line of it. The 2026 State of AI Coding Report – a Hanover Research study of 200 US-based technology leaders that New Relic commissioned and published this month – puts the headline number at 67% of leaders saying AI generates 51% to 75% of their weekly code. New Relic’s own observation supports this: GitHub commits jumped three standard deviations above baseline in November 2025, as Copilot, Claude and Cursor became more involved with coding.
Speaking with Ashan Willy, New Relic’s CEO, in the...
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