Every cleanup process you have was designed for human-speed mess-making. AI agents just have a “hit the nitro” button.
A recent piece on pmdata.substack.com coined a term I can't stop thinking about: "AI slop debt." It's about what happens when tools like Claude Code and Lovable generate mountains of functional-but-soulless code. And it nails something most of us are feeling but haven't named yet.
The Speed Problem Isn't New. The Scale Is.
Technical debt has been around ever since we started delivering software. We've always cut corners, shipped the hacky thing, promised to fix it later. It was acceptable. Humans generate tech debt at a pace humans can (theoretically) clean up.
AI agents are not concerned about “later.” They write code so fast that your backlog is obsolete before the next sprint planning.
