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Cognitive Debt: AI Wrote All Your Code, But You Can't Understand Your Own System Anymore
Technical debt lives in code, cognitive debt in your brain. As AI writes 80% of code, system understanding drops to 20%. UVic's Margaret-Anne Storey, Simon Willison, & Martin Fowler confirm this isn't a hypothetical future—it's happening now.
Thoughtworks Secret Retreat Leaked: Juniors Are More Valuable Than Seniors Now — Software Engineering's Identity Crisis Is Here
Thoughtworks' AI in software retreat: Juniors more valuable, mid-level devs at risk, source code transient, AI agents on org charts. Humans too slow for AI's speed.
Andrew Ng: AI Isn't Stealing Your Job Yet — But People Who Use AI Are Stealing Jobs from People Who Don't
Andrew Ng: AI isn't mass unemployment. Teams shrink (8 eng + 1 PM -> 2 eng + 1 PM). Bottleneck shifts from 'how to build' to 'what to build' – the "PM Bottleneck."