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Shadow AI is a demand signal, not a discipline problem

82% of UK IT leaders were stung by unexpected AI costs this year. The bill is the symptom. What nobody can see is the cause.

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Jun 23, 2026
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Sometime in April 2026, the engineering organisation at Uber reached a conclusion that would have been difficult to imagine a year earlier. It had spent its entire 2026 budget for AI coding tools. Th…

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