The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
Source: The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload Publisher: The New York Times | Author: Mike Isaac, Erin Griffith Published: April 6, 2026 | Archived: April 6, 2026
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Companies are scrambling to deal with the glut.
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- April 6, 2026Updated 12:27 p.m. ET
When a financial services company recently began using Cursor, an artificial intelligence technology that writes computer code, the difference that it made was immediate.
The company went from producing 25,000 lines of code a month to 250,000 lines. That created a backlog of one million lines of code that needed to be reviewed, said Joni Klippert, a co-founder and the chief executive of StackHawk, a security start-up that was working with the financial services firm.
“The sheer amount of code being delivered, and the increase in vulnerabilities, is something they can’t keep up with,” she said. And as software development moved faster, that forced sales, marketing, customer support and other departments to pick up the pace, Ms. Klippert added, creating “a lot of stress.”
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Mike Isaac is The Times’s Silicon Valley correspondent, based in San Francisco. He covers the world’s most consequential tech companies, and how they shape culture both online and offline.
Erin Griffith covers tech companies, start-ups and the culture of Silicon Valley from San Francisco.
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