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Design is the work now. Cognitive debt is the newest drag on productivity. petar.dev/posts/cognit...

petar.devCognitive Debt.When you use AI to build fast, the debt doesn't accumulate in the code. It accumulates in your head.

17/2/26, 10:53 am1 repost5 likes

Axel

@clarityhacker.bsky.social

17 Feb

This framing is perfect. Technical debt is about future velocity. Cognitive debt is about present capacity. Every "just learn this new abstraction" compounds until engineers spend more time context-switching between mental models than actually building.