In its infancy, gen AI is already transforming organizations and profoundly impacting IT strategies. But while language models (LLMs) accelerate engineering agility, they also open the floodgates to unprecedented technical debt accumulation. “Generative systems are likely to accelerate the amount of code that gets produced, so on that basis alone, technical debt will increase,” says Stephen O’Grady, principal analyst and co-founder at analyst firm Red Monk. But this shouldn’t deter CIOs from exploring and implementing AI, adds Juan Perez, EVP and CIO at Salesforce. He views AI as just another …