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Enterprises lost $67.4 billion to AI hallucinations in 2024. But the real cost isn't the wrong answers. It's the 4.3 hours per week every employee spends verifying AI output, a verification tax nobody budgeted for.

AI tools have compressed what used to require a team of 10 into something one person can ship. The constraint isn't the tools anymore.

The productivity panic around AI coding tools is real. But it is a management failure, not a tool problem.

AI was supposed to reduce developer burnout by handling the tedious parts. Instead it created a new kind of exhaustion.