AI is making software cheap to build. Is your organization ready for what comes next?

AI is rapidly lowering the cost and time required to build software, shifting the enterprise buy-versus-build equation and making it more feasible for business units and IT teams to replace some SaaS and legacy systems with custom tools. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic implication is twofold: organizations can unlock lower cost, better performance, and faster innovation, but they also risk a surge in shadow IT, fragmented application sprawl, and governance gaps because AI-generated software often bypasses traditional controls. IT organizations will need to move from being primarily a request bottleneck to becoming a platform, security, and lifecycle-governance function that can safely scale this new abundance of software.