AI is drowning codebases in machine-written output, and we’re automating the creation of legacy mess, one enterprise software leader argues in today’s lead story.

With vibe coding, a developer only needs to type a few prompts into an AI coding assistant to create a functioning app in seconds. But if you repeat that process thousands of times across an engineering organization, all that AI-generated code could mean that today’s productivity gains may become tomorrow’s technical debt, writes TNS News Editor Darryl Taft.

Taft spoke to Matthias Steiner, senior director of Global Business Innovation at Syntax, an SAP consulting and managed services firm, about the problem. Steiner tells The New Stack that productivity without governance opens the door to problems.

“Nobody gets paid to write code but to create outcomes,” he says. “Coding is only part of the job.”

So who is going to clean up this mess? Read more: Beyond vibe coding: the case for spec-driven AI development

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