Cognitive debt
The growing gap between what you have produced with AI and what you understand, which you pay for later when you need to fix, explain or build on it.
Related
- Vibe coding A way of building software where a person describes what they want and accepts the code AI tools write without reading it, judging only whether the result works.
- AI-assisted A way of working where a person decides each step and does the task, and AI tools help with parts of it.
- Meat proxy A person who approves or passes along AI output without verifying or reading it.