The original title is 10 words: "AI writes code in seconds. Architecture debt takes months to notice."

Short summary

AI-assisted code generation is fast and functionally correct, but architecture degrades subtly—individual commits pass tests and reviews while introducing coupling and boundary violations. Current tooling can't detect this architectural drift until it becomes expensive to fix. The problem is misaligned incentives: AI optimizes the immediate problem while architecture requires protecting the entire system.

• •AI code is correct locally but creates architectural debt through incremental coupling and boundary violations across many commits
• •Current tooling (tests, linters, reviews) doesn't detect architectural drift until it's expensive to address
• •Need continuous architectural health tracking to catch drift early, addressing the gap between local and system-wide optimization

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