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The Cynical Developer · Yesterday · 6 min

AI Doesn’t Remove Technical Debt - It Accelerates It

The hope is that AI will finally help us clear technical debt. We argue it’s closer to the opposite - the fastest debt-generator we’ve ever built - and look at the new, harder-to-pay kind of debt nobody understood in the first place. Written by James Studdart. Voiced using an AI model of his voice.

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The hope is that AI will finally help us clear technical debt. We argue it’s closer to the opposite - the fastest debt-generator we’ve ever built - and look at the new, harder-to-pay kind of debt nobody understood in the first place.

Written by James Studdart. Voiced using an AI model of his voice.