How AI can magnify your tech debt - and 4 ways to avoid that trap

A new study finds 43% of IT managers fear AI will create new technical debt - even as 84% expect cost cuts from AI adoption. Here's how to avoid the tech debt trap.

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Many IT execs are concerned AI is creating more tech debt, not less. 
• AI may be running on debt-laden platforms. 
• Longer-term thinking is needed for software.

Tech debt has long been an ever-expanding tax on technology implementations, and it appears that the problem is unlikely to go away anytime soon -- even if AI takes on some of the heavy lifting in application development and deployment. In fact, AI may make things worse.

A new study, published jointly by HFS Research and Unqork, finds that 43% of IT managers fear AI will create new technical debt -- even as 84 ...