The rise of technical debt linked to the opacity of AI-generated code

A phenomenon dubbed "AI opacity debt" is identified as a hidden cost of AI assistants in development.

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It occurs when portions of code generated by tools like Claude or Copilot become incomprehensible.

This technical debt surfaces late, during subsequent code modifications.

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