# How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

<https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Research-grade post coining "cognitive debt" — AI-assisted teams ship fast but lose shared understanding of their own systems. The code may be fine; the team's ability to reason about it erodes. Highly relevant for any engineering leader.

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