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Martin Fowler argues that AI's lack of human 'laziness'—the constraint-driven drive to build elegant abstractions—risks creating bloated, complex systems that accumulate technical, cognitive, and intent debt. Without human oversight applying principles like YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It) and TDD, LLMs will generate excessive code and over-engineered solutions that undermine long-term system maintainability and cognitive load. CIOs must establish governance frameworks and architectural guardrails to ensure AI-assisted development maintains engineering discipline and prevents the accumulation of debt that will compound operational costs and team productivity.