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by lemagedurage 2 hours ago
> AI makes it cheap to write code. That is not the same as it being cheap to ship it, or to maintain it. One participant put it cleanly: cognitive debt is the new technical debt.

It being expensive to ship or maintain software still sounds like technical debt, no?

For cognitive debt, I'd expect something like context switching and reviewing large amounts of code being exhausting.