I think AI is swapping code debt for tooling debt

I talked with an engineer recently who told me he was single-handedly (or rather, Claude-handedly) paying down tech debt in his company s codebase. And, at the same time, implementing a bunch of tools in their CI to catch all the kinds of quality slop problems that vibe coding everything could bring with it. I am thinking that this is representative of switching to a new mode of thinking about…