New Relic Forecast Finds AI Coding Speeds Development but Drives More Incidents
Summary
New Relic’s 2026 Observability Forecast finds that AI-generated code speeds development but coincides with more incidents for 78% of surveyed teams, while one in four runs AI agents without monitoring them.
Key Points
- New Relic releases its 2026 Observability Forecast, surveying 2,575 IT and engineering leaders on AI and observability.
- The survey finds 78% of teams report more incidents despite faster coding speeds from AI-generated code.
- One in four teams runs AI agents without monitoring them, while average observability tool counts rise from 4.4 to 5.0.