AI agents promised faster delivery. They also delivered 39% more Cognitive Complexity and 30% more static analysis warnings.

Research found a reinforcing cycle: AI generates more code → complexity rises → debt accumulates → velocity drops → teams generate even more AI code to compensate. Initial speed gains? Gone within months.

This isn’t a tooling problem; it’s a systems problem. More code was never the goal.

https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/genai-code-quality-fundamental-flaws-and-how-bluffing-makes-it-worse/

#AIinSoftwareDevelopment #BuildInPublic #TechnicalDebt

I normally like Kohler’s column when he unpacks economic news, but when he digresses into tech topics, I’m less likely to read him. I did this time (because things may change after all) but all I got from it is GenAI KoolAid and vaguely hinted at problems that #TechBros are keen on glossing over.

It is a pity that the author is not turning his analytical mind to take a closer look at what the frenetic pace of #GenAI development and the #GenAISlop it splashes about the place as it inexorably pushes forward with not only #TechnicalDebt but also #CognitiveDebt laden implementations. Sooner than we think, we’ll be faced with problems we do not know how to solve for want of the ability to #FaultFind in a sea of #sloppy and #incomprehensible machine produced code mashups.

Where to an economy held hostage to runaway coding machines? The ‘wagering system’ that is the stock market will start to look like ‘doctored’ one-arm bandits of yore. Where the wealth will flow is very obvious.

#EatTheRich #Antifa #Resistance #RedistributeWealth #UBI
#TaxReform

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/ai-jobs-fake-breakthrough-resignation-chat-gpt-claude/106346440

Simon Willison (@simonw)

‘인지적 부채(cognitive debt)’에 대한 짧은 성찰으로, 검토되지 않은 AI 생성 코드가 누적되면 구축한 시스템에 대한 명확한 정신적 모델을 잃어 이후 의사결정과 개발이 어려워진다는 경험을 공유하고 있습니다.

https://x.com/simonw/status/2022904199495983510

#cognitive_debt #aicode #technicaldebt #devex

Simon Willison (@simonw)

과도하게 검토되지 않은 AI 생성 코드로 인해 내가 만든 시스템에 대한 명확한 정신 모델이 사라지고, 향후 의사결정을 자신 있게 내리기 어려워지는 '인지 부채(cognitive debt)' 현상을 자신의 작업에서 관찰했다는 짧은 고찰입니다. 개발자 경험과 코드 생성 도구 사용 시 발생하는 인지적 비용을 경고하는 내용입니다.

https://x.com/simonw/status/2022904199495983510

#ai #technicaldebt #codegen #developerexperience

I grow a little bit weary of people hoisting ops engineers on a pedestal for fixing problems, when those fixes are undocumented loopholes, scripts and hooks that violate security, and are tied to personal accounts so that when that person leaves, random parts of your delivery infrastructure are rendered unusable.

By all means patch things up, but document it, register the technical debt and do a proper handover.

#dev #devops #ops #technicaldebt

Some notes on Y2K38, time_t, and why “modern systems are safe” is an oversimplification.
It’s less about a single date in 2038, and more about how legacy assumptions around time still shape modern software.

https://marcoallegretti.me/blog/y2k38/

#Y2K38 #Unix #SoftwareEngineering #Systems #TechnicalDebt