Memory, Speed, and Understanding: The Cognitive Division Between Developer and AI
What AI Cannot Replace in Software Development, Part 2 What the developer must retain, what can legitimately be delegated, and why confusing the two leads to the erosion of knowledge. An Operational Distinction I have spent a significant part of my career working with organizations whose human foundation is unstable: high turnover, frequent reassignments, temporary teams assembled for a project and dissolved at its close. In these organizations, something specific happens to software systems over time. The knowledge of why the code is the way it is gradually disappears. ...