Tell HN: We need an accounting system for cognitive debt

By mikaelaast · 2026-07-02 · 2 points · 0 comments

The term “cognitive debt” is gaining ground [1]. We can now produce code faster than we can understand it. The bottleneck is real, and so is the feeling of being choked. The situation is not new. We have always had code no one quite dares to touch. Agentic coding makes it much w…

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