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Technical debt

The future cost of rework caused by choosing fast but suboptimal technical solutions today — common when MVPs skip architecture planning.

Technical debt is the implied cost of future fixes when teams prioritize speed over maintainable architecture. Some debt is intentional in early MVPs — the key is knowing which shortcuts are safe and which will block scale.

AI-augmented development reduces production time without skipping senior engineering review — which helps avoid the worst forms of debt from unreviewed AI-generated code.

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