[color=lab(8.11897 0.811279 -12.254)]Comprehension debt precedes every fix. Before adding error handling, an engineer must reconstruct the intent of code generated without knowledge of the surrounding architecture. The [color=lab(57.8793 -49.8967 34.7702)]2025 Stack Overflow developer survey found that roughly 45% of developers report that debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming than expected.