technical-debt
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AI Writing Worse Code? That's Your Choice, Not AI's Fault
Simon Willison's Agentic Engineering Patterns, Chapter 3: AI should help us ship better code, not worse. Technical debt cleanup costs near zero now, architecture decisions can be validated with prototypes instead of guesses, and quality compounds over time.
Cognitive Debt: AI Wrote All Your Code, But You Can't Understand Your Own System Anymore
Technical debt lives in code, cognitive debt in your brain. As AI writes 80% of code, system understanding drops to 20%. UVic's Margaret-Anne Storey, Simon Willison, & Martin Fowler confirm this isn't a hypothetical future—it's happening now.