Posts tagged Technical Debt — AI × software engineering, made practical.
You'll learn why coding agents copy whichever pattern shows up most often in your repo, how that tilt grows with every PR an agent opens, and four ways to fix it: cleanup, golden-path files, lint rules and ADRs written for agents to read.
A framework for telling stakeholder urgency and system risk apart in prioritization, and why each needs a different owner in the backlog.
Every signal a reviewer — human or agent — could see said the function was safe to delete; the only thing that said otherwise lived in a Slack thread a workspace reorg had already erased.
Agent-assisted engineers aren't losing their coding skills, they're quietly losing the ability to defend architectural decisions — and the fix is a trackable ratio of decisions made versus decisions merely inferred.