What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) (margaretstorey.com)

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This is not just about code quality. It is about whether individual developers and product teams can maintain a coherent mental model of what the system is doing and why.

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[-] cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Pay the debt or be an expert novice, master of nothing.

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago

"Yeah, I can do that task. I'm very experienced in struggling to implement stuff like that."

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