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Public story · 2026-03-03 · source-backed
Willison's evolving "Agentic Engineering Patterns" series introduces two critical concepts. "Cognitive debt" — the danger of losing understanding of agent-generated code — is a distinct and more dangerous cousin of technical debt because you can't debug what you don't understand. "Knowledge hoarding" — the argument that domain expertise (knowing what's possible) is the irreplaceable skill in an agentic world. He demonstrated both by building a GIF optimizer with Gifsicle WASM, showing how experienced developers expand into unfamiliar domains by maintaining the architectural judgment layer. This is becoming the canonical practitioner reference. simonwillison.net
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