alt Hacker News> But humans still need to be responsible for understanding what they're shipping
I don't necessarily disagree. That said...
Why?
I've been grappling with this myself. There is an easy/obvious answer, but I wonder how stable/permanent it is. If you feel strongly about this, are you willing to unpack your judgement?
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jplusequalt • today at 3:10 PM
>Why?
We are overly reliant on technology today. I don't see this trend slowing down in the future.
I think that a world where everyone is reliant on technology, and nobody understands how it works is a nightmare.
Certainly the population of people that need to know how something works is much smaller.
But even still, cognitive debt is a real, documented phenomenon where we lose our ability to change projects.[1]
We also know coding agents tend to accumulate slop in projects over time without some human intervention[2]
There's also the concern of whether its a good idea to be dependent on an addictive slot machine run by a trillion dollar company to do your work.
1 - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/
2 - https://www.scbench.ai/