Your AI Coding Speedup Is a Loan, Not a Gift — and the Interest Is Coming Due (opens in new tab)

There's a number going around that should bother you more than it does: for every dollar companies spend on AI coding tokens, a large chunk goes straight back into fixing the bugs that same AI produced. The speedup is real — I feel it every day, I'm not here to tell you AI coding is fake. But "faster" and "cheaper" are not the same word, and 2026 is the year the bill started arriving. TL;DR — AI doesn't give you a productivity gift, it gives you a loan: speed now, paid back later in debugging...