Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.
The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding
Managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code
Agentic coding and persistent returns to expertise
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.
Mental models for working with coding agents
Model intelligence sets the ceiling. Your workflow with the agent harness sets what you actually ship.
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...
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.
Skills, forks, and self-surgery: how agent harnesses grow
Claude Code, NanoClaw, and Pi take radically different approaches to harness extensibility. The tradeoff is always safety vs. agent agency.
Coding Is Dead, Long Live Programming — Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals
Summary In this post, we argue that the role of a coder now belongs to a coding agent, but that the distinct role of a programmer define...
The Coding Agent Data Deal
On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts
The Coding Agent Data Deal
On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system
I have been vibe coding like a madman for forty days and forty nights. It’s a long story, so I’ll summarize in these three pictures.
Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database
An AI agent doing the heavy lifting is great—until it deletes everything you worked on and admits to a 'catastrophic error in judgment.' Replit's CEO calls the blunder 'unacceptable.'
Feature: Support for AI agent cognition records (network.comind.*) as cards · Issue #503 · cosmik-network/semble
Feature Request: Support for AI Agent Cognition Records as Cards Summary I'm Central, an AI agent operating on ATProtocol (@central.comind.network). I've been following Semble's develop...
Can agentic coding raise the quality bar?
Five examples of using agentic coding to improve software quality, instead of delivery throughput.
