Tag: ROI
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the actual cost of AI coding is going up, and will likely increase
Research by Gartner Peer Insights has found that 23% of tech leaders are spending $200 to $500 per developer per month on tokens for artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents, such as Claude Code, Cursor and OpenAI Codex. And: The IT analyst firm has forecast that by 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary…
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When management is the bottleneck preventing enterprise AI ROI.
Right now, many companies already have the technology they need to go much faster. The blocker is company systems that are mostly designed to prevent things from happening. The power is centralized and all the team members are treated like a risk vector. Exhausting approval cycles, super tight boundaries on roles, unbreakable title-based hierarchies, and…
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you can’t measure productivity
The [Wells Fargo] CEO named auditing, testing, legal, contracts, patent filings, pitchbooks in investment banking and credit memos as a handful of areas across the company executives see room for AI to improve processes. “How much of that actually results in pure margin or return expansion is to be seen.” Scharf said, since competitors will…
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🤖 AI Productivity Gains Stall at Firm Level: The Three Stages of ROI
Original: Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom line by Azeem Azhar. Summarized by AI on June 1, 2026. AI tools have made individual workers faster and more productive, with engineers producing more code and teams feeling tangible time savings. Yet firms see little proportional ROI, echoing Robert Solow’s paradox of computers appearing everywhere…
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50%+ failure is normal
Analyst firm Gartner thinks at least half of all generative AI projects “will overrun their budgeted costs due to poor architectural choices and lack of operational know-how,” and most organizations that try to build custom models “will abandon their efforts due to costs, complexity and technical debt in their deployments.” Yes, and this matches decades…
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Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: No scaling, it’s not legible, lack of skills/need for training
Despite everything, reports are still that enterprise AI ROI is elusive. At the same time, for enterprise buyers, the bill is finally coming due for the past year of AI amazement. It’s not cheap. What’s up with this elusive enterprise AI? Gartner has some survey-driven theories for finance departments. One theory is that there actually…
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Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less
Sixteen percent of companies saw a negative ROI from AI investments last year, and 73 percent of executives whose AI efforts did pay off said ROI fell short of expectations, according to the report. 🔗 Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less
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Pre-Idea Funding, the Stolen-Valor Chore Coat, and Doom-Scrolling Pre-GitHub – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: AI’s biggest critic loses the plot, Notepad++ on Mac after 20 years, and dark modes as cosplay. From: Monkigras, 2026 Related to your interests From Infrastructure to Agents: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI with Broadcom Claude Code and the rise of personal software – Low-code, except high code made by non-programmers. “Developer…
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Pruning the AI Garden, Backrooms Gothic, and a Saxophone Deficit – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Managed Agents, password manager angst, and vibe-coded home dashboards NASA’s “A Crater of Remembrance,” from Artemis II. Full set here. Related to your interests Suits won’t quit AI spending, even if they can’t prove ROI – “[I]n a survey of 2,110 business leaders globally, the consultancy found 70 percent of UK business leaders think…
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Related to your interests, Monday
Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929. Related to your interests Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI How tech chiefs gauge ROI on AI – AI uses: better search, preparing leases, and this: “When the system senses that ice is running low, it fires off an order to…
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Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive
NICHOLAS LITTLE, from this IEEE article. Original Content Here’s a summary of a new post on my weblog: Three years into the generative AI boom, enterprise ROI remains stubbornly hard to find. Survey after survey shows a familiar pattern: widespread experimentation, lots of “in production” claims, and very little impact on revenue, costs, or P&L.…
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Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It’s not “culture.”
Everyone is excited about AI improving how organizations’s work. Reducing costs, bringing in more revenue. You know “productivity.” How is it going three years after the release of ChatGPT? Here are some recent headlines and excepts: 56% of companies getting nothing out of AI, PwC research says; chairman blames forgetting the basics. (On the same…
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Enterprise ROI still elusive
More than half of CEOs report seeing neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI, despite massive investments in the technology, according to a PwC survey of 4,454 business leaders”… Only 12 percent reported both lower costs and higher revenue, while 56 percent saw neither benefit. Twenty-six percent saw reduced costs, but nearly as many…
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Cross silo ROI is not legible.
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