Markus Feilner

How Generative and #Agentic #AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to #CognitiveDebt

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 understand, modify, or extend over time...

Margaret-Anne Storey
Feb 28 at 3:20pmMoshidon
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"Margaret-Anne Storey, a software engineering researcher, recently gave this a more precise name: cognitive debt. Technical debt lives in the code. Cognitive debt lives in developers’ heads. It’s the accumulated loss of understanding that happens when you build fast without comprehending what you built."
https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-02-15/finding-the-right-amount-of-ai/
What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik

What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?

Tom Wojcik
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#darkflow
https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
fast.ai - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

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#SeniorityCollapse
"This goes deeper than individual skill decay. We used to have juniors, mids, seniors, staff engineers, architects. It was a pipeline where each level built on years of hands-on struggle. A junior spends years writing code that is rejected during the code review not because they were not careful, but didn’t know better. It’s how you build the judgment that separates someone who can write a function from someone who can architect a system. You can’t become a senior overnight"