2026-02-13 16:37 UTC
And while we can do some of this prompting into view with genai, there’s something we might value and appreciate in the human interaction (in design and other settings). And notice too, when we give up too much of our own attention, when responsibility is handed off…
Tools change the worlds around them. Good to be somewhat intentional and heads up about what we lose, too…
Image: a page of Unflattening, by Nick Sousanis
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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social 2026-02-13 17:17
“But as we dug deeper, the real problem emerged: no one on the team could explain why certain design decisions had been made or how different parts of the system were supposed to work together. The code might have been messy, but the bigger issue was that the theory of the system, their shared understanding, had fragmented or disappeared entirely. They had accumulated cognitive debt faster than technical debt, and it paralyzed them.” — Margaret Storey https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/