Adam Tornhill is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He's the founder of CodeScene, where he designs tools for software analysis. He's also the author of the best-selling Your Code as a Crime Scene, and three more technical books. Adam is an award-winning software researcher, focusing on code quality and AI. His other interests include music, retro computers, and martial arts.
Have you seen early productivity gains from AI, only to watch them disappear under growing complexity and production incidents? You're not alone. There's a common reason. Many production systems already struggle with technical debt. When AI agents enter the development loop, that debt becomes a multiplier. Poor-quality code not only increases defects and costs. It dramatically raises AI risk by dr...