Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code

Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code "You're not a developer anymore. You're a reviewer of code you don't understand." That line from The Serious CTO named something I’d been feeling but couldn’t articulate. With AI, the volume of code we ship has completely decoupled from the amount of code any human actually understands. I call this comprehension debt — the gap between the code in our systems and the knowledge in our teams’ heads. And I believe it’s the most important...