I dunno.
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I dunno. I think “cognitive debt” is just a fancy-pants way of saying “not knowing how your shit works.”
This is no remarkable special condition that needs a new term. It’s just that people have a limited grasp of details when they’re not involved in the details.
If not for a term like “cognitive debt” to make it seem special, we might conclude a lot of those predictions about how AI would hurt software development were right.
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, instead communicates the notion that …
Simon Willison’s Weblog (simonwillison.net)
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I dunno. I think “cognitive debt” is just a fancy-pants way of saying “not knowing how your shit works.”
This is no remarkable special condition that needs a new term. It’s just that people have a limited grasp of details when they’re not involved in the details.
If not for a term like “cognitive debt” to make it seem special, we might conclude a lot of those predictions about how AI would hurt software development were right.
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, instead communicates the notion that …
Simon Willison’s Weblog (simonwillison.net)
For most people, ANYTHING they use is "cognitive debt", ask them how their glass prayer tablet works and they'll respond smugly "Computer"...
... Mention "quantum tunneling transistor" inside and you'll get rapid blinking shutdown mode.
AI hasn't caused wide spread ignorance of... Everything...
People go lazy way before then.
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