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@justingosses.github.io

Wonder if any tech company will make a long-term bet on engineer comprehension. While other costs of agentic coding will reduce as models, harness, and skills improve, those are not designed to impact SWE comprehension. There’s currently no measurement of it or attempt to improve it.

JustinG

@justingosses.github.io

Would probably live under a platform or developer experience team? Something baked into pull requests and pre-commit hooks maybe? Would probably get the best junior engineers to apply.

JustinG

@justingosses.github.io

Seniors too - as would be good signal to other things.

2/10/26, 4:20 pm0 reposts0 likes

JustinG

@justingosses.github.io

Additional reading : www.fightforthehuman.com/we-need-more...

fightforthehuman.comWe need more than a metaphor: here are testable diagnostics for comprehension debtDo we understand our code? I think we need to get past symptoms and into causes. Here's a field-tested measure of one organizational condition that can erode comprehension (Overproduction Pressure) yo...