Considering All the Costs of AI
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
A Tech Field Day panel weighs AI's hidden costs: technical debt, maintainability, convergent answers and accountability.
Recorded before AI Field Day 9, this Tech Field Day podcast brings together Ron Pagani Jr., John Willis, Dave Nicholson and Stephen Foskett to look at the full cost of AI beyond the financial bill.
They highlight maintainability and the technical debt AI can create through unsustainable systems, costs that are hard to see or plan for.
The panel also covers implementation complexity even for experts, the risk that AI systems converge on the same answers for many users, and questions of accountability and IP ownership.
They stress that people remain responsible for what an LLM produces.