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Cognitive Debt
The growing gap between the code your team ships and the code your team understands. It's not technical debt. It's worse.
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https://simonwillison.net/tags/cognitive-debt/
Simon Willison on cognitive-debt
10 posts tagged ‘cognitive-debt’. We take on cognitive debt when AI accelerated development means we can no longer maintain a robust mental model of what our...
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https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/codebase-cognitive-debt
Codebase cognitive debt | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
Codebase cognitive debt is the growing gap between a system’s implementation and a team’s shared understanding of how and why it works. As AI increases [...]
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing...
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
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https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to...
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https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently,...
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