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Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...

simonwillison.netHow Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive DebtThis 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 …

Vikram Seraph 🪽

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Seems like a specific kind of tech debt, no? I’ve noticed this as well when I write AI generated code. It is similar to only partially reviewing a peer’s code - as another user said, LGTM

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