How AI can help you finally demolish your business's mounting technical debt

Evgeny Ostroushko / Getty Images Will artificial intelligence (AI) help smash through the technical debt that has been growing in recent years? Or will emerging technology add a new layer of issues? Or, looking at it another way, could the overhang of technical debt slow down efforts to adopt AI? The good news is that a recently issued report suggests AI may be an answer to finding and reducing systems that slow things down. Also: Meet the most important AI tool that no one is talking about - but everyone needs Technical debt is defined as shortcuts or workarounds taken to meet delivery deadlines quickly, according to tech analyst Gartner. The most recent figures available put accumulated software technical debt at more than $1.52 trillion, according to an estimate from the Consortium for Information and Software Quality. Many companies have been case-hardened within the concrete of technical debt for decades. The new report and survey of 800 executives from HFS, a technology resea ... Read full article.