At a Glance A bug consumes more than coding time: triage, reproduction, context gathering, test creation, CI troubleshooting, review, rework, release coordination, and the opportunity cost of delayed roadmap work. A useful economic unit for evaluating autonomous remediation is not “patches generated.” It is verified backlog removed per unit of scarce engineering attention. Outcome-based pricing becomes easier to evaluate when the organization has a local baseline for fully loaded remediation cost and a shared definition of an accepted fix. Bug Remediation Cost Starts With the Full Backlog Economics Engineering backlogs are usually discussed in technical language: severity…

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