Tech Debt in the AI Era
Cristieneil Ceballos2026-03-28T18:26:11+00:00Every software team knows the feeling. You ship fast to hit a deadline, planning to clean it up late, but "later" never comes. Soon, quick fixes pile up, and instead of saving time, you’re spending more than you planned. That’s technical debt in a nutshell — and it’s not going away anytime soon. What is changing is how we manage and deal with it. Modern systems are more distributed, interconnected, and increasingly powered by AI. In this environment, periodic clean-ups, manual code reviews, and occasional rewrites aren’t enough. Costs compound faster, dependencies deepen, and risks become harder to trace. So [...]









