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You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs

I’ll get straight to the point: your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance costs. Three times as productive? One third the maintenance costs. Otherwise, you’re screwed.…
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May 22nd, 2026
Prompts are technical debt too

Extends the observation that all code is technical debt to prompts: each one adds to the complexity and maintenance burden of a system, and every future change has to work with what is already there or avoid breaking it. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Prompts are technical debt too
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May 21st, 2026
Your Slop, My Sludge

AI sludge: the build up of comprehension debt and day two toil due to AI generated apps. 🔗 Your Slop, My Sludge
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May 20th, 2026
Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores – workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools

Tokens are the new lines of code. Also, yes, of course, “Goodhart’s Law,” blah blah. 🔗 Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores – workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools
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May 18th, 2026
Burnout and Cognitive Debt

Picks up the conversation started by Steve Yegge’s article on programmer burnout, “The AI Vampire”, and Margaret Storey’s work on cognitive debt. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Burnout and Cognitive Debt
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May 13th, 2026

Tag: codegeneration

You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs

Prompts are technical debt too

Your Slop, My Sludge

Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores – workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools

Burnout and Cognitive Debt