The hidden tax on every AI workflow is growing

DBreunig just posted about what happens when AI prompts rot. The idea is simple: every time you tweak a prompt to get better results, you're adding a little bit of debt. It's like interest on a credit card — small at first, then suddenly you're paying a lot of attention to things that used to just work.

Over time, prompts drift apart. A workflow that once ran smoothly starts requiring manual fixes. You end up spending more time managing prompts than actually doing work. The article walks through how this happens in practice — not some theoretical AI problem, but the kind of friction you feel when you open your project and realize you need to explain to the tool what it's supposed to do.

Why this matters for us:
If you're already juggling multiple apps to run your business, every new AI tool adds another layer of maintenance — and the cost of that maintenance grows faster than the time you save.