418: Why AI-Generated Code Hurts Your Exit

The Bootstrapped Founder

We're living through a fascinating moment in software development. AI coding tools can build features faster than ever before. They can scan entire codebases, spot things we might miss, and implement changes across dozens of files in seconds. It's incredible.

But there's something we need to talk about. Something that's quietly accumulating in our projects while we marvel at how quickly we can ship features.

This is called comprehension debt.

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