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# The AI Remediation Bill

AI made your developers faster. The rest of the software supply chain is absorbing the cost. **New research from 307 enterprise security, platform, and engineering leaders puts a number on it.**

- The conservative floor on engineering time spent fixing or revisiting AI-assisted work
- The five charges on the bill, and why they rarely reach a single budget
- Why OSS is the overlooked pressure point, and where control has to move

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## AI delivered the dividend. The bill is coming due downstream.

94%

say AI increased the software requiring remediation or cleanup

139 hrs

per engineer each year spent fixing or revisiting AI-assisted work, a conservative floor

76%

had a release delayed by unmanaged OSS dependencies in the past year

50%

say new dependencies can reach production without prior review or approval

Source: ActiveState, The AI Remediation Bill, 2026. Survey of 307 enterprise technology leaders conducted by Moving Horizon.

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