Why AI 'Fails' at Complex Tasks: It's Your Technical Debt

The Common Complaint # I keep seeing this pattern in discussions about AI coding assistants: AI excels at bootstrapping new projects, able to generate scaffolding, write tests, debug simple issues, and power through generic code patterns. However, that same AI struggles significantly with codebases of higher complexity. As soon as event-driven architectures, ETL pipelines, or complex data layers…