---
title: "Did AI cause business disruptions? — Technology data 2026"
url: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/disruption
year: 2026
chapter: "technology"
question: "Disruption"
section: "Build vs. AI"
licence: "ODbL 1.0 (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/)"
---

# Did AI cause business disruptions?

Security and privacy issues caused 24% of teams valuable time in the last year

Asked as: What kinds of AI mistakes have cost you or your team the most time in the past year? Select all that apply. (`Disruption`, multi select, optional, v2026.1)

## Options offered

1. Plausible but wrong code
2. Outdated APIs
3. Missing context
4. Security/privacy issue
5. Hallucinated package/config
6. Poor debugging path
7. Licensing/source uncertainty
8. Hard-to-review generated code
9. Incorrect or stale internal knowledge
10. Other, please specify (with free-text entry)

## Results

### All Respondents

n = 13,648

|  | Respondents | Percent |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| Plausible but wrong code | 9,452 | 69.3% |
| Hard-to-review generated code | 7,403 | 54.2% |
| Missing context | 6,724 | 49.3% |
| Hallucinated package/config | 6,161 | 45.1% |
| Incorrect or stale internal knowledge | 5,287 | 38.7% |
| Outdated APIs | 4,621 | 33.9% |
| Poor debugging path | 3,377 | 24.7% |
| Security/privacy issue | 3,205 | 23.5% |
| Licensing/source uncertainty | 1,560 | 11.4% |
| Other | 1,172 | 8.6% |

In context: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data.md