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Technical Debt

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Development

Coding Agent Debt Is Broken Behavior, Not Messy Code

Two 2026 studies find coding agents struggle on code other agents wrote, yet maintainability metrics don't explain it. Earlier tests that already fail do.

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GitClear's Maintainability Gap Puts a Price on AI's PR Boom

GitClear and GitKraken's 623-million-change study finds AI coding lifts pull requests but pushes code duplication up 81% as legacy maintenance falls 74% since 2023.