The estate is bigger than anyone’s picture of it
Hundreds of repositories across teams, acquisitions, and abandoned services. No single person can say which ones are healthy, and the org chart stopped matching the code years ago.
Every team is solving the same problem separately
The same missing checks, the same upgrade debt, the same review bottleneck, discovered independently by six teams and fixed six different ways.
Agents multiplied the volume, not the oversight
Autonomous work now lands in repositories with no owner, stale context, and permissions nobody reviewed. The output went up. The ability to answer for it did not.
Spend is easy to see, value is not
You can produce the invoice for seats, sessions, and tokens. Nobody can produce the line that says which of it became working software.