Chollet: delegate coding, never delegate understanding — beware 'conceptual debt'
round · x · 2026-09-22
François Chollet: "Delegate coding. Never delegate understanding." If code was your source of truth for managing understanding, you need a new source-of-truth artifact and new workflows. A replier distills the risk as "conceptual debt" — outsourcing comprehension to AI accumulates a hidden liability like technical debt.
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