认知债务
AI编程时代提出的概念，指开发者对AI生成代码理解深度的欠债，是技术债务的延伸变体，会随时间复利增长并在关键节点集中爆发
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"Cognitive debt" is an approximate term in software engineering research for the phenomenon of "code growing faster than understanding," distinguished from technical debt: technical debt concerns code quality and maintenance costs, while cognitive debt concerns whether the team's mental model of the system is complete.
When LLMs make the marginal cost of generating code approach zero, cognitive debt accumulates in a more hidden way, because the code runs and all tests are green, yet no one can clearly explain how it behaves under extreme conditions.
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"Cognitive debt" is an approximate term in software engineering research for the phenomenon of "code growing faster than understanding," distinguished from technical debt: technical debt concerns code quality and maintenance costs, while cognitive debt concerns whether the team's mental model of the system is complete.
50%UnverifiedWhen LLMs make the marginal cost of generating code approach zero, cognitive debt accumulates in a more hidden way, because the code runs and all tests are green, yet no one can clearly explain how it behaves under extreme conditions.
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