What is this

From "code" to "no-code" to "vibe coding" and back to "code".

What you are seeing here is that many are attempting to take shortcuts to building production-grade maintainable software with AI and now realizing that they have built their software on terrible architecture only to throw it away, rewriting it with now no-one truly understanding the code or can explain it.

We have a term for that already and it is called "comprehension debt". [0]

With the rise of over-reliance of agents, you will see "engineers" unable to explain technical decisions and will admit to having zero knowledge of what the agent has done.

This is exactly happening to engineers at AWS with Kiro causing outages [1] and now requiring engineers to manually review AI changes [2] (which slows them down even with AI).

[0] https://addyosmani.com/blog/comprehension-debt/

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/20/amazon-cl...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f77...