ActiveState Report Puts AI Coding Cleanup Cost at 139 Engineering Hours a Year

**ActiveState says its new report, *The AI Remediation Bill*, puts a measurable labor cost on AI-assisted software development: engineers spend a conservative floor of 6.7% of their time fixing or revisiting AI-aided work, equal to about 139 hours a year.** The finding shifts the AI-coding debate from gross output to net engineering capacity, where generated code still has to be reviewed, secured, maintained and owned.