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Cognitive Debt: Nobody Needs the Whole Codebase in Their Head

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TL;DR On October 15th, Anthropic's Claude Code team wrote: "Nobody on the team keeps a complete mental model of Claude Code in their head, and we don't think anyone needs to." When someone needs to learn a slice of the code, they ask Claude for an explainer. Margaret-Anne Storey, a computer science…

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  1. 2026-10-19 15:58 · DEV Community — AI
    Cognitive Debt: Nobody Needs the Whole Codebase in Their Head

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