Engineering Leadership

Illustration for the blog post AI-Generated Technical Debt: The Hidden Cost of Shipping Fast with AI Coding Tools

AI-Generated Technical Debt: The Hidden Cost of Shipping Fast with AI Coding Tools

There is a moment every engineering leader knows. A sprint goes unusually well. Features ship ahead of schedule. The team looks energized, velocity metrics look great, and the product demo is smooth. Then, three weeks later, someone touches that code. I have had this happen twice in the last year — once within a project […]

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AI Tool Cost Governance: Why Your AI Stack Is Becoming Your Biggest Infra Expense

  Last quarter, I ran the numbers on our team’s AI tooling spend. What I found made me pause. The combined cost of AI coding assistants across a mid-sized engineering team had quietly crept past what we used to budget for cloud infrastructure. Nobody flagged it. Nobody had a policy around it. And nobody —

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