// Addy Osmani · 5 June 2026

The Intent Debt

Technical debt lives in your code. Cognitive debt lives in your head. Intent debt lives in the artifacts you never wrote - the goals, constraints and rationale that explain why the system is the way it is. It's the one kind of debt your agents can't pay down for you, and the one agentic engineering...

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