The Cost of Cognitive Debt

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kooi•about 2 hours ago

I think with more agentic code comes the responsibility of more documentation, more architectural understanding.

Perhaps agentic code is the equivalent to a C compiler outputting what previously was the domain of assembly engineers.

jolaflow•about 1 hour ago

I think what is different from the assembly -> C analogy is that we are now non-deterministic. You could almost argue that going to C increased human understanding, as we could express problems in a more human way. And while agents enable us to express ourselves in natural language, we lost the determinism along the way.

bediger4000•about 2 hours ago

What agentic workflows change is that we can now produce code that never had a theory behind it to begin with.

That's exactly right: there's no because there.