Are You Accumulating Cognitive Debt with Coding Agents?
jjw_kbh · reddit · 2026-08-21
The author explores the problem of 'cognitive debt' arising from long-term use of coding agents. Despite disciplined code review, the author found that their understanding of code minutiae had degraded, even after building a skill to check it. Noting that even Robert C. Martin admits to only scanning high-level shapes of LLM code, the author suggests this is a temporary fix. The community needs to solve how to integrate LLMs into SDLC without outsourcing knowledge, and shares a GitHub project 'grill-me' to help expose understanding gaps.
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