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Top 5 · 2026-03-01 · source-backed
Two massive Hacker News stories — "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension" (468 pts, 205 comments) and "What AI Coding Costs You" (307 pts, 181 comments) — crystallize practitioner anxiety about AI-generated code outpacing human understanding. Simon Willison's response: his Interactive Explanations chapter has coding agents build animated visualizations of their own code. The VSDD methodology (193 HN pts) fuses spec-driven, test-driven, and verification-driven development as a concrete counter-proposal. What to do: Run /simplify after every feature. Use Willison's interactive explanation technique to understand agent-generated code before shipping it.
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