Trunk-Based Thierry

Comprehension Debt in the context of AI

notes from Denali Lumma via the DORA community

That was a bit of my worry, that people no longer make the effort to understand and internalise. There have been more posts about that: there is an upcoming reasoning deficit.

We have seen this with Stackoverflow to some extent (nothing bad about SO, great tool, it has been very helpful). Now it risks being exacerbated.

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Show threadTrunk-Based Thierry2d ago

In reply, someone shared this interesting article:

Cog Debt Article: From Tech Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.22106

Show threadTrunk-Based Thierry2d ago

Which references another interesting article on the topic from Adam Tornhill

Skills rot at machine speed: AI is changing how developers learn and think

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/04/28/skills-rot-at-machine-speed-ai-is-changing-how-developers-learn-and-think/