<p>The decisions that look free today can become expensive in six months - and AI accelerates the process at exactly the moment when the bill is quietly written. This talk is about that trade-off. The friction that vibe coding removes used to be where feasibility and constraints were discussed, so implicit decisions are made by the model instead.</p> <p>In this talk, Alex Ponomarev covers where “free now” turns into “costly later”: blurred guardrails, code shipped without understanding its structure, and verification deferred. He shows how to price that deferred bill up front - by choosing which decisions to log and which to keep reversible. AI does not eliminate technical debt. It issues it faster and bills it on a delay.</p>