Comment by throwatdem12311

Technical Debt is not a developer skill issue. It’s a management planning, capacity and budget issue. It’s a bet that the cost of servicing the debt will be less than the cost of paying for it outright with cash. I’ve been in the industry for decades and 95% of the dysfunction in an engineering organization is always management.

AI doesn’t really fix that or is really even that suited for it. In many cases it makes it worse.

That’s why you see software quality going down. Developers aren’t told to make better quality software even though AI does really make that easier. Instead they’re told to make more software faster for cheaper.

Cheap, Fast, Quality. Pick two. Business will pick cheap (short term) and fast every single time.