44% of every dollar companies spend on AI goes directly to fixing bugs that the AI itself created.

A report from Entelligence AI across 2,444 companies shows that for every $1 spent on AI tokens, $0.44 goes to bug fixes, $0.27 to rewriting AI-generated code, and $0.11 disappears into review and merge delays.

Companies spending $100,000 on AI tokens and only $18,000 worth is reaching production. The other $82,000 is overhead generated by the tool itself.

Lightrun's 2026 report found that 43% of all AI-generated code still requires manual debugging in production even after passing every quality test.

Not a single engineering leader surveyed said they were fully confident AI code would behave correctly once deployed.

Wall Street is pricing AI as a productivity tool and the data says 82% of the spend never reaches the actual product.