Technical-Debt

Everyone’s adding AI to everything right now. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT for code reviews, AI-powered testing tools – the pressure to adopt is intense. I get it. I’ve been through similar waves with microservices, NoSQL, and containerization. But here’s what I’ve learned: the shiny new tool often comes with costs that don’t show up in the demo. The Infrastructure Tax You Don’t See Coming Last month, I helped a startup debug their “AI-enhanced” development workflow. Their build times had tripled. Why? Every pull request triggered three different AI tools: code analysis, test generation, and documentation updates. ...

Last month, I spent 47 hours refactoring a single Node.js service. The codebase was 18 months old. The original developer was long gone. And every new feature request became a 3-day archaeological expedition. I’ve been tracking technical debt costs across projects for the past two years. Not gut feelings or estimates - actual time measurements. The numbers are worse than you think, but they’re also more predictable than most teams realize. ...