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App development

Technical debt

Technical debt is the price of quick fixes in code that gets paid later: every shortcut, missing test or unmaintained library makes future changes more expensive.

Some debt is normal; the problem is when it grows unchecked. In AI-generated apps it accumulates faster than ever, because the code is written by a model with no knowledge of the rest of the system.

What it means for your business

When a change that "should take a day" takes a week, you are paying off technical debt.

Related terms

Code review

A check of code by a person or AI before it goes into the app.

Refactoring

Rewriting code to do the same thing, only cleaner and easier to extend.

Quality assurance (QA)

Everything that keeps the app working: tests, device checks, security.

Vibe coding

Building an app by describing it in plain language while AI writes the code.

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