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Software

The technical debt bill for AI-generated code is coming due

Google says 75% of its new code is AI-generated. Seventy-five percent of technology leaders expect moderate to severe technical debt this year. Those two numbers are not a coincidence — they are the same trend measured from two ends.

AI & Agents

When an agent acts, someone still has to answer for it

A year of pilots proved the models can do the work. The question that decides which agent programs survive is duller and harder — who is accountable when one gets it wrong.

Security

June's breaches came in through doors you already own

A PeopleSoft zero-day, a ServiceNow exposure, a pharma extortion. None of it was exotic — and that is the uncomfortable part.

Business

Your AI problem is an operating-model problem

Two years and a lot of spend later, the pilots that stall and the ones that scale differ on workflow and ownership, not model quality. Budget accordingly.

AI & Agents

Nobody owns AI, and that's the org chart's fault

AI work spreads across every function and belongs to none of them on the current org chart. The fix is not a new title. It is admitting the chart was built for a world where work stayed inside its box.

Data

Your employees are the data breach, one prompt at a time

Sixty-three percent of employees have pasted source code, client data, or financial records into a personal chatbot account. No attacker was involved. The leak was a feature request typed into the wrong box.

Security

Attackers aren't breaching your agents. They're stealing their credentials.

A supply chain attack on an AI plugin ecosystem sat undetected for six months using harvested agent credentials. The agent's logic was never touched. Its API key was the entire attack.

Cloud

GPU capacity, not cloud pricing, is the new lock-in

Azure sits at full A100 availability. Google Cloud has been flat at 44% for a year. The vendor you picked for pricing may now be the one that cannot give you the compute your AI roadmap needs.

IT Strategy

Shadow IT isn't a rebellion. It's a vote of no confidence in procurement.

Thirty-eight percent of technology purchases are now managed by business leaders, not IT. Calling that a discipline problem misses what the number is actually measuring — trust in how fast IT can say yes.

Business

Per-seat AI pricing is quietly falling apart

Enterprise AI runs $3 to over $100 a seat, with minimums, platform fees, and 20-30% monthly premiums buried under a headline number. The model everyone defaulted to was built for software that doesn't change what "a seat" means.

Leadership & Careers

The middle manager is not a title. It was a message. Both are being cut.

Gartner expects a fifth of organizations to eliminate more than half their middle-management roles this year. The justification is AI. The actual cause is that visibility used to require a human relay, and it no longer does.

Software

AI made your developers faster and your codebase riskier

Time-to-PR is down 58%. Security vulnerabilities in that same code are up 15 to 18%. Both numbers are real, and pretending only one of them matters is how the second one compounds.

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