2 papers
cs.SE2026
Cognitive Tours: Making Understanding a Deliverable in AI-Assisted Development
Margaret-Anne Storey
Generative AI and agentic coding are accelerating software development, leading to concerns about technical debt. But two less visible forms of debt, cognitive debt and intent debt…
cs.SE2026
Cognitive Debt in the GenAI Era - Listening to Practitioners' Voices on the Loss of Understanding
Theocharis Tavantzis, Bianca Trinkenreich, Michaela Greiler +6
Fast-paced AI-assisted software development risks reducing developers' understanding of the systems they build. This growing gap between what the system does and what developers un…