2026-02-15 21:42 UTC
@rotnroll666 @simon "cognitive debt" is just technical debt though, you don't need a new term.
"How does feature X work?"
"No idea, Dave M wrote that in the month before he quit and never documented it."
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@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net 2026-02-15 23:18
@neoluddite @rotnroll666 I think it's subtly different Technical debt is generally paid down by writing (or deleting) code Cognitive debt is paid down by figuring out exactly what the features all do and how they fit together