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How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt (margaretstorey.com)

submitted 5 days ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/aicoding@programming.dev

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Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that the debt compounded from going fast lives in the brains of the developers and affects their lived experiences and abilities to “go fast” or to make changes. Even if AI agents produce code that could be easy to understand, the humans involved may have simply lost the plot and may not understand what the program is supposed to do, how their intentions were implemented, or how to possibly change it.

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

The fun part is that it also makes the technical debt a lot worse. It compounds concern, not shifts.