AI agents promised faster delivery. They also delivered 39% more Cognitive Complexity and 30% more static analysis warnings.

Research found a reinforcing cycle: AI generates more code → complexity rises → debt accumulates → velocity drops → teams generate even more AI code to compensate. Initial speed gains? Gone within months.

This isn’t a tooling problem; it’s a systems problem. More code was never the goal.

https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/genai-code-quality-fundamental-flaws-and-how-bluffing-makes-it-worse/

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