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> But humans still need to be responsible for understanding what they're shipping I don't necessarily disagree. That said... Why? I've been grappling with th

> But humans still need to be responsible for understanding what they're shipping I don't necessarily disagree. That said... Why? I've been grappling with this myself. There is an easy/obvious answer, but I wonder how stable/permanent it is. If you feel strongly about this, are you willing to unpack your judgement?

softwaredoug 5d ago
Certainly the population of people that need to know how something works is much smaller. But even still, cognitive debt is a real, documented phenomenon where we lose our ability to change projects.[1] We also know coding agents tend to accumulate slop in projects over time without some human intervention[2] There's also the concern of whether its a good idea to be dependent on an addictive slot machine run by a trillion dollar company to do your work. 1 - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/ 2 - https://www.scbench.ai/ https://www.scbench.ai/
jplusequalt 5d ago
>Why? We are overly reliant on technology today. I don't see this trend slowing down in the future. I think that a world where everyone is reliant on technology, and nobody understands how it works is a nightmare.