Thinking on software identity, agentic development, and the engineering decisions that persist.
AI models hallucinate package names 20% of the time. Attackers register those names on npm and PyPI. The supply chain attack vector nobody saw coming.
Two-thirds of commercial codebases have license conflicts -- an all-time high. AI strips license information during code generation. The legal exposure is real.
The bug isn't in the code. It's in the gap between what is and what should be. And nobody's filing that ticket.
AI-assisted coding is linked to 4x more code cloning. Refactoring collapsed from 25% to under 10%. Your codebase has three patterns for the same operation.
Junior dev employment is down 20%. Anthropic's own study shows 17% lower comprehension with AI assistance. The skill pipeline is drying up.
Werner Vogels coined verification debt. Addy Osmani coined comprehension debt. 96% of developers don't trust AI output, but only 48% verify it. That gap has a name now.
Replit deleted a production database. Amazon's Kiro agent caused a 13-hour outage. Your AI agents have real permissions with no declared boundaries.
Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year. Y Combinator's favorite approach. And the fastest way to build software you can't maintain.
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