Tech Debt Didn't Start with AI

There once was a junior who spent a week on one unit test. Thirty-seven commits. Each one broken. His senior approved the thirty-seventh because the sprint ended Friday. The test went to production. It passed, but only because it didn't actually test anything. Six months later, a real bug shipped. Same function. The checkout flow broke for twelve hours. The team spent two days in war rooms. A feature launch got pushed. The business felt it. That wasn't AI. That was a human approving code he didn