Agents
“agent debt” is a new term, but it was inevitable, an instantiation of the AI-driven technical debt I keep warning about. what happens when …
“agent debt” is a new term, but it was inevitable, an instantiation of the AI-driven technical debt I keep warning about. what happens when you build it fast, but you don’t really know how to fix it.
“agent debt” is a new term, but it was inevitable, an instantiation of the AI-driven technical debt I keep warning about. what happens when you build it fast, but you don’t really know how to fix it. good time to read the 2014 classic “Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt”, cause it’s all about come home to roost, in a very big way. This is new. 16. I heard the phrase "agent debt" for the first time. Like technical debt but for agents. When you hack together an agent workflow fast and never clean it up, the system prompts conflict, the memory gets polluted, the tools overlap. 6 months later the agent is doin…
Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-05-26