I think there is a different way to look at it. My personal experience is that enterprises that are at the forefront of adopting new ways of working, are now much more comfortable taking risks with building applications and insourcing SaaS functionality. The amount of custom software build is actually increasing and the codebase are getting more complex. Is there a price to pay down the road? Maybe.

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tylerchilds a day ago | parent [-]

The definition of technical debt

We took risks today in the hopes that these decisions will make enough money to offset the labor cost of the decision.

Ai promises to eliminate labor, so businesses correctly identify AI risks as free debt.

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dns_snek a day ago | parent [-]

> Ai promises to eliminate labor, so businesses correctly identify AI risks as free debt.

These aren't promises, they're just hopes and dreams. Unless these businesses happen to be signing contracts with AI providers to replace their labor in a few years, they're incorrectly identifying AI risks as free debt.

	▲	tylerchilds a day ago \| parent [-]
		I absolutely agree with you and I’m hyperbolizing to highlight exactly how incorrect that “promise” is Realistically, the execs see it as either them or their subordinates and the idea of a captain dying with a ship is not regarded as noble amongst themselves. So they’ll sacrifice the crew, if only for one more singular day at sea.