AI lets developers produce code faster than ever. The debt doesn't come from the code itself. It comes from everything that didn't speed up with it: review, documentation, QA, and architecture. That gap is where the trouble accumulates.
A twice-yearly React Native upgrade review is a practical baseline for many live apps. The point is not chasing every release. It is keeping framework, dependency, platform, and store changes from becoming one emergency.
You built an app with AI, it shipped, and now it breaks in ways nobody can explain. Here is how an AI-generated app actually gets rescued: map it, stabilize it, then decide whether to keep it or rebuild.