AI’s next enterprise risk is generated sprawl

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For years, technical debt was one of the most useful concepts in software. It gave technology leaders a simple way to describe a familiar trade-off: a team could build quickly by cutting corners and making compromises but would eventually come back to clean things up. The debt incurred had to be repaid – that was the expectation. At some point, someone had to refactor the code, document the system, upgrade the architecture or fix the shortcuts that made speed possible.

That’s not happening with AI.

AI has changed the nature of risk in software development because generation is so easy. It’s easy to create another app or another agent. It’s easy to change a prompt, add a data source, duplicate a workflow or push something into use because it seems to work. But the much harder work is deciding what should exist, who owns it, how it changes and what...

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