Broken software has become a familiar occurrence, as Hamdija Jusufagic, co-founder and CEO of CodeScene, explains. In his view, this familiarity has become so ubiquitous that organizations barely register it as a problem anymore. Slow releases, brittle systems, rising defect rates, and frustrated engineers are often dismissed as the unavoidable cost of building at scale, often leading to technical debt.
From Jusufagic's perspective, the danger is not just technical debt itself, but the way it quietly drains time, confidence, and strategic momentum from the business. In an AI-driven era, that risk accelerates even faster. Each year, globally, poor software quality costs businesses over $2.41 trillion, creating an accumulated technical debt of $1.52 trillion, which poses the biggest obstacle to making any changes to existing code bases.
