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Pattern: 'Cognitive Debt' — Mario Zechner + Simon Willison Warn Agents Compound Mistakes Faster Than Humans Can Audit
Simon Willison's March 25 piece 'Thoughts on slowing the fuck down' amplifies Mario Zechner's critique: agentic code generation creates 'cognitive debt' — mistakes compound faster than humans can review them, and the speed that makes agents attractive is precisely what makes their failures catastrophic. The argument: agents don't just make different errors than humans, they make errors at a rate that outpaces human verification capacity. For builders running autonomous agent loops, this frames the core tension — speed vs. auditability.
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