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What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)

What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)

A week ago, I wrote about how Generative and Agentic AI may be amplifying what I’ve been calling cognitive debt: the accumulated gap between a system’s evolving structure and a team’s shared unders......

This is not just about code quality. It is about whether individual developers and product teams can maintain a coherent mental model of what the system is doing and why.

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