From Technical Debt to Triple Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code

Podcast: Tech Lead Journal · Henry Suryawirawan

Opublikowano: 2026-07-27

Is vibe coding quietly draining the thing that makes teams effective: their shared understanding? Margaret breaks down her new “triple debt” model, and why cognitive debt might be the one nobody’s tracking. In this episode, Margaret-Anne Storey, co-author of the SPACE framework and a leading developer experience researcher, returns three years after her first appearance to unpack her new “triple debt” model. She explains how technical debt is now joined by cognitive debt, the erosion of shared understanding across a team, and intent debt, the loss of the “why” behind decisions that agents also lack. Drawing on h...