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How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

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This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that …

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