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Why prompt debt, retrieval debt, and evaluation debt are quietly reshaping enterprise AI risk
Over the past two decades, technical debt meant outdated architecture, messy code, and poorly maintained documentation. That definition is no longer sufficient in the AI era, where failure modes are more subtle and often non-linear.
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AI companies are now facing a new form of technical debt that spreads across prompts, models, and data dependencies, making failures harder to spot and more dangerous than traditional code debt. A 2025 MIT study reported that 95% of AI projects never reach production or deliver value, while an S&P Global Market Intelligence study found that 42% of businesses abandoned multiple AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17% the year before. These failures are largely attributed to poorly designed and implemented systems that are complex to manage and contain many hard‑to‑monitor failure points, leading to a rapid accumulation of AI debt.
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