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Why AI code rots20 August 2026 · 6 min read

Why AI keeps breaking features that already worked

The feature worked on Friday. On Monday a change to something unrelated broke it, and nothing in the toolchain said so. Here is why that keeps happening, and what actually helps.

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Tool comparisons

What the current tools do well, and where each one stops.

13 August 2026 · 7 min

Sketch-to-code tools compared: tldraw, Uizard, and more

Several tools can turn a drawing into running code today. The real difference between them is what the drawing becomes afterwards: a discarded prompt, or a model of your system.

9 August 2026 · 6 min

AI app builders compared: v0, Bolt, Lovable, Replit

Four tools, four different bets on what 'building an app' means. Here is what each is actually good at, and the one problem none of them solve.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

Prompt-to-app tools: what they do, where they stop

The first version is nearly free now. Understanding exactly where that stops being true is the difference between a tool that saves you months and one that costs you them.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code: assistants compared

These tools write code well. The differences that matter are about scope: how much of your system each one can hold in its head at once.

Why AI code rots

The failure modes that show up in week three, not week one.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

Why AI-generated apps fall apart in week three

It is never the first prompt that goes wrong. The decay has a mechanism, and once you can name it you can design around it.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

Architecture drift: what it is and how to catch it

Every codebase has a design in someone's head and a design in the files. Drift is the distance between them, and it only ever grows on its own.

9 August 2026 · 4 min

The thousand-line prompt problem

Every team using AI agents seriously ends up with a giant instructions file. It works, briefly, and then stops, for a reason worth understanding.

9 August 2026 · 4 min

Vibe coding, and the bill that arrives later

Building by feel (prompt, look, accept, repeat) is the fastest software has ever been to write. The cost is real, deferred, and avoidable.

Better architecture

Practical ways to keep a codebase legible while AI writes it.

9 August 2026 · 4 min

Using AI on an existing codebase without breaking it

Almost every AI coding demo starts with an empty folder. Almost no real work does. Here is how to bridge the gap without wrecking something that already works.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

How to review a codebase you didn't write

Inheriting a codebase you did not write is now normal, and the reviewer is often the person who prompted it. Here is an order of operations that finds the expensive things first.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

Architecture diagrams that stay true

The diagram on the wall was accurate the day it was drawn. Here is why that is the last day it was, and what to do differently.

9 August 2026 · 4 min

Technical debt from AI coding: how to measure it

AI does not produce more technical debt so much as a different kind, one the usual measurements were not designed to see.

For non-technical founders

Staying in control of software you did not write yourself.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

How to build an app without code: an honest guide

This is now genuinely possible, and the guides that say so usually stop before the interesting part. Here is the whole arc, including the bits that get harder.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

No-code vs AI builders vs hiring a developer

Four routes to the same destination, with very different bills. The one that matters is not the upfront cost. It is what you own at the end.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

Staying in control of software you can't read

Control does not come from reading code. It comes from being able to check specific things, and every one of them is available to you.

9 August 2026 · 5 min

From whiteboard sketch to working software

The most accurate description of your system was drawn on a whiteboard and photographed once. Here is what changes if you keep it.

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