The Cost of Quality Escalation: The 'Rule of 100'

Cost to Fix a Defect by Phase ($)

Requirements

Production (High Risk)

Defects introduced by AI that slip into production due to lack of expert oversight incur exponentially higher remediation costs. Fixing a bug in production is estimated to cost 100x more than addressing it during the design phase.

Data sources: CloudQA, Dev.to, Aspire Systems