Executive Summary
This report explores how the rise of agentic AI is reshaping software engineering – and exposing a new wave of technical debt challenges. While AI coding tools are improving code quality and reducing defects at the code level, they are simultaneously accelerating the accumulation of architectural technical debt across systems. By 2027, Gartner® predicts this will represent 80% of all technical debt.
CAST named a Leader by Gartner
CAST has been named a Leader in this Magic Quadrant and is positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision. CAST equips AI agents with complete deterministic architectural context, enabling them to safely remediate technical debt, even as AI generates new code throughout the enterprise.
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