Developers have spent years fighting technical debt. Now there’s a new variant accumulating in codebases, and many teams don’t even know about the pileup.
JetBrains calls it Shadow Tech Debt — low-quality, architecture-blind code generated by AI agents that operate without any structural understanding of the projects they’re modifying. And with the launch of Junie CLI on Monday, the company is betting that this is the next big problem in enterprise software development.
The diagnosis starts with fragmentation.
“The current state of…

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