Lots of teams today are coding faster than their brains. That's not sustainable. Let's talk about ways to stay up-to-date with how your codebase changes when AI coding agents take over.

00:00 Introduction
01:20 What is cognitive debt?
03:35 Signs to watch out for
04:30 Tools to tackle cognitive debt
05:22 1 separate decisions from execution
06:49 2 make comprehension an explicit criterium
08:40 learning-opportunities skill
10:08 3 build one slice at a time
10:33 4 think in diagrams
14:50 5 explicitly document big decisions
17:20 skill-creator
19:00 outro

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References:
* https://addyosmani.com/blog/comprehension-debt/
* https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
* https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
* https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
* https://c4model.com/
* https://verraes.net/2015/03/event-storming-storytelling-visualisations/
* https://adr.github.io/
* https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/skill-creator