2026-02-16
Cognitive Debt. — “Even if AI agents produce code that could be easy to understand, the humans involved may have simply lost the plot and may not understand what the program is supposed to do, how their intentions were implemented, or how to possibly change it.” — margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/ 02...
Margaret-Anne Storey
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt
2026-02-15
Cognitive Debt. — “Even if AI agents produce code that could be easy to understand, the humans involved may have simply lost the plot and may not understand what the program is supposed to do, how their intentions were implemented, or how to possibly change it.” — margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/ 02...
Margaret-Anne Storey
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt
The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder …
2020-04-19
“Knuth is a computer scientist who understands that words matter.” There are several good interviews of Donald E. Knuth. This one is worth your time too: https://twitter.com/...
Quanta Magazine
Profile of and Q&A with pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, who is still writing his magnum opus The Art of Computer Programming, which he began in 1962
For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression.