AI Ships Your Code in Minutes. Your Team Pays for It for Months. Here's Why.

AI Writes Code Fast. That's Exactly the Problem.

Speed is not the enemy. Unmaintainable speed is.

AI coding assistants can ship a working endpoint in minutes. What they can't do by default is ship one you can still safely touch six months later.

I've seen this pattern repeatedly. Teams move fast, ship fast, celebrate fast. Then the codebase becomes a place people are afraid of. Every change breaks something unrelated. No one wants to be the one who touched it last.

The cause is almost never complexity. It's coupling.