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Another cost for software (jeferson.me)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Shin@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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As we continue developing our software, we accumulate a growing amount of technical debt just to keep the system running. But I believe we are on the brink of an even larger issue. Cognitive debt.

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[–] Prox@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is the cognitive debt of the past. We already had it. We just didn’t have the name for it.

We always called it "domain knowledge" or "tribal knowledge".

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"oral history".

"The ropes"

It's got many names. Why did this guy not know any of them? Why was "I don't know the name" suddenly "there is no name"?

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

That isnt what was described by cognitive debt which is what the post is describing

[–] Shin@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

But in the days of old, the replacement of human, or generation of domain/tribal knowledge were in the range of human capability to learn the new parts of a system.

With the LLM of today this scale is far flipped on the wrong side, and no product fully LLM will be manageable in a few years.