Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code.
Comprehension debt is the hidden cost to human intelligence and memory resulting from excessive reliance on AI and automation. For engineers, it applies most to agentic engineering.
How to harness AI
"Coding agents" are complicated but intelligible
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...
Agent Skills
AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skill...
AI Code
As AI Coding Agents write more code, it's more important than ever that we're intentional about the code it writes.
The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Mental models for working with coding agents
Model intelligence sets the ceiling. Your workflow with the agent harness sets what you actually ship.
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
A randomized trial with 52 developers found AI assistance lowered comprehension scores, except when used for explanations rather than delegation.
Code Was Never the Asset - The Phoenix Architecture
Why AI makes the hidden economics of software unavoidable
AI coding wisdom from the people who would know
Essays and threads from experienced developers who've gone deep on AI-assisted coding.
Managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code