I’ve seen this cycle before: Delphi promised everyone could write programs. Visual website builders “killed” web development. No-code/low-code tools claimed to change everything.

Now it’s 2026, and the hype is Vibe Coding: describe a feature in plain English, and watch hundreds of lines of code appear per minute. No coding, no engineering—just steering a vibe.

It feels magical. But as someone who’s cleaned up after plenty of “miracles,” here’s the catch: technical debt never disappears, it compounds. AI-generated code is a high-interest loan, and most teams are not ready to pay it back.

I'm curious: How is the community handling AI-generated code, velocity without understanding, and the hidden debt?