The Cost of Software
jeferson.me
Software is costly and mechanical parrots won't make it cheaper. Do you want to know why?

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.

Hope you enjoy this reading, all feedback is welcome.

  • Prox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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”.

    • Shin@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      5 days 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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      “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”?