Nothing, the people worrying about AI tech debt on HN have been worrying about it for years. 2024 HN threads had the same comments.
The reality is that models just keep getting better and are very good at cleaning up the debt they created. The "tech debt" bill never came due. It won't.
Until some catastrophic data loss event or data leak that nobody understands or has any mitigations for. Oops! Guess bankruptcy and prison time are the ultimate uncaught exceptions.
I remember this being said as far back as 2022 yet we're still here fixing things manually when the models inevitably code themselves into a hairball convoluted enough they can't find a way out.
The reality is that models just keep getting better and are very good at cleaning up the debt they created. The "tech debt" bill never came due. It won't.