The High Interest of Leveraged AI Technical Debt
From Embedded AI - Intelligence at the Deep Edge by David Such
April 6, 2026 · 25 min · Season 5 · Episode 24
About this episode
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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Host: David Such
Topics covered
- AI-assisted software development
- productivity paradox
- technical debt
- coding assistants
- software delivery
- refactoring
Keywords
- AI
- software development
- productivity
- technical debt
- coding assistants
- refactoring
- code cloning
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