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Comprehension debt: what AI-written code actually costs
Originally published at fathohm.dev .
The term "comprehension debt" is Jason Gorman's, from September 2025, carried by
Addy Osmani in March 2026 β this piece is about measuring it.
There's a module in your codebase that shipped last month. It works. It has
tests. It passed review. And if it breaks at 2am, nobody on your team can
explain what it does.
Ask "who understands this?" about any given file in an AI-native codebase
and the honest answer, increasingly often, is no one β not...
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