June 26, 2026

TL;DR Technical debt was Ward Cunningham’s deliberate shortcut, made in 1992 with awareness that the bill would arrive later. Agent Debt was never a choice: the studio model generates all four types by design. The compound interest mechanism is identical. But Agent Debt accumulates across four dimensions simultaneously, while technical debt compounds in a single […]

For CPOs and procurement directors managing deployed AI agents: nine questions across four dimensions. Your score places you in one of three brackets, each with a specific next step. TL;DR Every agent in your procurement estate probably passes its own test. This assessment answers the question your dashboards don’t: are those passing agents delivering outcomes,