AddyOsmani.com - Comprehension Debt — the hidden cost of AI generated code.

AddyOsmani.com - Comprehension Debt — the hidden cost of AI generated code.

Comprehension debt is what happens when AI lets teams generate code faster than humans can truly understand it. The code looks clean, the tests are green, and velocity climbs, but the shared mental model quietly erodes. That makes incidents, regressions, and …

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. Theres a cost th… [+11364 chars]
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