{"slug": "ai-writes-your-code-does-anyone-on-your-team-actually-understand-it-i-ve-been-in", "title": "AI writes your code. Does anyone on your team actually understand it? I've been in incident calls where brilliant engineers went silent.", "summary": "A senior engineer has identified a phenomenon called \"Cognitive Debt,\" where teams lose deep understanding of their own systems as AI generates increasing amounts of production code. The engineer observed that even brilliant developers fall silent during incident calls, unable to explain the logic behind AI-written components. This silent accumulation of opaque code threatens long-term system maintainability and team expertise.", "body_md": "Cognitive Debt: AI Is Building Your Systems. Do You Actually Understand Them?\nkranthi kumar Gajji\nkranthi kumar Gajji\nkranthi kumar Gajji\nFollow\nMay 25\nCognitive Debt: AI Is Building Your Systems. Do You Actually Understand Them?\n#\ndiscuss\n#\nai\n#\nsoftwareengineering\n#\narchitecture\n9\nreactions\nComments 16\ncomments\n8 min read", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-writes-your-code-does-anyone-on-your-team-actually-understand-it-i-ve-been-in", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/kranthi_kumar_gajji/ai-writes-your-code-does-anyone-on-your-team-actually-understand-it-ive-been-in-incident-calls-30i4", "published_at": "2026-05-28 19:28:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-28 19:56:07.638168+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics", "generative-ai", "ai-tools"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-writes-your-code-does-anyone-on-your-team-actually-understand-it-i-ve-been-in", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-writes-your-code-does-anyone-on-your-team-actually-understand-it-i-ve-been-in.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-writes-your-code-does-anyone-on-your-team-actually-understand-it-i-ve-been-in.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-writes-your-code-does-anyone-on-your-team-actually-understand-it-i-ve-been-in.jsonld"}}