The Cost of Cognitive Debt

The Cost of Cognitive Debt(ljtn.github.io)

6 points by samuell 36 days ago | 3 comments

bediger4000 36 days ago |

What agentic workflows change is that we can now produce code that never had a theory behind it to begin with.

That's exactly right: there's no because there.

kooi 36 days ago |

I think with more agentic code comes the responsibility of more documentation, more architectural understanding.

Perhaps agentic code is the equivalent to a C compiler outputting what previously was the domain of assembly engineers.

jolaflow 36 days ago | |

I think what is different from the assembly -> C analogy is that we are now non-deterministic. You could almost argue that going to C increased human understanding, as we could express problems in a more human way. And while agents enable us to express ourselves in natural language, we lost the determinism along the way.