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Why AI-Only Products Accumulate Invisible Technical Debt
Architecture
8 min readWalhallah

Why AI-Only Products Accumulate Invisible Technical Debt

The debt does not show up in demos.

AI tends to optimize for plausibility rather than correctness under stress. Generated systems often miss domain invariants, edge conditions, and operational constraints. These gaps remain invisible until scale exposes them.

Human engineering introduces intentional friction: reviews, explicit contracts, and architectural boundaries. This friction prevents catastrophic rewrites later.

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