A study by MIT Media Lab found that users relying on ChatGPT as a primary drafting tool showed 47% reduced neural connectivity compared to those who wrote without AI assistance, a phenomenon called co…
A senior software engineer warns that AI coding agents, while boosting productivity, erode developers' understanding of their own codebases by breaking the feedback loop between writing and comprehens…
A 2025 experiment by research nonprofit METR found that 16 experienced open-source developers using AI tools on familiar codebases were actually 19% slower, despite expecting a 24% speedup and feeling…
Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey of the University of Victoria introduced the term 'cognitive debt' in October 2025 to describe the hidden cost of AI-generated code that engineers cannot understand. Unlike tr…
Anthropic researchers found that junior developers using AI assistants scored 50% on a comprehension quiz versus 67% for those working without AI, a gap termed 'cognitive debt.' Studies from METR, MIT…