Supporting position

Cheap generation creates expensive ownership.

When generation costs nothing, the bill moves downstream to acceptance, integration, review and ownership — and usually gets bigger. Budget the gap, not the headcount.

Conventional wisdom

AI saves money by cutting developer headcount.

Our position

AI does not remove cost. It relocates it.

Why we believe it

Headcount is the cheapest input; the bill moves downstream to acceptance, integration and long-term ownership — and usually grows.

What we’ve observed

  1. 01Gartner projects ~30% of GenAI projects abandoned after PoC; the downstream slowdown is rarely budgeted.