The High Interest of Leveraged AI Technical Debt

The High Interest of Leveraged AI Technical Debt

April 6, 2026 · 25 min · Season 5 · Episode 24

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This episode examines the evidence that AI coding assistants are not accelerating delivery but rather creating a productivity paradox.

Send us Fan Mail Developers feel 20% faster. They are measurably 19% slower. That 39-point gap between perception and reality is not a rounding error. It is the opening symptom of a productivity paradox now visible across every serious dataset on AI-assisted software development. This episode examines the mounting evidence that AI coding assistants are not accelerating delivery. They are mortgaging it. Review time has climbed 91%. Refactoring has collapsed by 60%. Code cloning has risen eight...

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