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Certainly the population of people that need to know how something works is much smaller. But even still, cognitive debt is a real, documented phenomenon where
by softwaredoug 23d ago
Certainly the population of people that need to know how something works is much smaller.
But even still, cognitive debt is a real, documented phenomenon where we lose our ability to change projects.[1]
We also know coding agents tend to accumulate slop in projects over time without some human intervention[2]
There's also the concern of whether its a good idea to be dependent on an addictive slot machine run by a trillion dollar company to do your work.
1 - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/
2 - https://www.scbench.ai/ https://www.scbench.ai/