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The precious commodity with our work is cognitive load. We can build tooling that reduces future cognitive load. As a result, we have access to multipliers. The

• philwelch 8y ago
  The idea that tooling "reduces" cognitive load is based on the assumption that tooling lets you work in terms of abstractions rather than worrying about what the tooling actually does. This assumption breaks down as soon as the tooling itself breaks down. At that point, not only do you have to worry about the underlying problems that the tooling is intended to solve, but you also have to worry about the implementation details of the tooling itself. Tooling breaks down more often when it's more complicated, and you need more complexity when your tooling abstracts over a large amount of complexity, so the more that your tooling is supposed to reduce your cognitive load, the more likely it will break in such a way that it actually increases your cognitive load.
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