Oh, just some light Friday afternoon thinking about the existence, meaning, and value of knowledge debt.
@mattiemMatt Massicotte I like “knowledge debt”. Reminds me of Peter Naur’s Programming as Theory Building paper (1985). I came across it a few months ago (not coincidentally, in the context of LLM/vibe coding criticism). PDF: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf One of the main theses is that the primary outcome of the software development process is not the piece of software, but the team’s shared understanding of the problem domain and how they modeled it in the code.
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