The Cost of Software
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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.

  • Shin@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    6 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.