Why Genpact is warning about AI driving the mass-generation of technical debt

If you have been working in the tech sector for any time, you’ll be familiar with the concept of technical debt where you build up the cost of re-work in the future, by choosing an easy, sub-optimal approach now.

The concept has increasingly been bothering me as I listen to claims being made around gen AI models for coders. Models are so easy to use and so fast to generate code, and yet, I wonder, will we soon be regretting the model generated code being created today?

I turned to Rajesh Padmakumaran, VP of AI Transformation and Services at Genpact to pick his brains on the matter. After all he has worked for many years on customer application development and maintenance, building software using Java and other technologies. And he is currently building gen AI assets to help app developers.

Modernizing code with Claude

Padmakumaran explains how he has ...