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Cognitive Debt from Unreviewed AI Generated Code

Simon Willison
Simon Willison
1d ago

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 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/co…

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How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

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