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It’s hard to keep the minutiae in your memory over a long period of time - but I certainly remember the high level details. Patterns, types, interfaces, APIs, architectural decisions. This is why I write comments and have thorough tests - the documentation of the minutiae is critical and gives guardrails when refactoring.

I absolutely feel the cognitive debt with our codebase at work now. It’s not so much that we are churning out features faster with ai (although that is certainly happening) - but we are tackling much more complex work that previously we would have said No to.