Beyond Technical Debt: How AI-Assisted Development Creates Comprehension Debt in Resource-Constrained Indie Teams · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2512.08942/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTBeyond Technical Debt: How AI-Assisted Development Creates Comprehension Debt in Resource-Constrained Indie Teams — mentioned by rvzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678100urn:hackerpapers:mention:2512.08942:47678100Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:47:26 GMT<p>&gt; Without the above, you run into the same issue devs would run into before AI - the codebase becomes an incoherent mess, and even AI can&#x27;t untangle it because the confusion gets embedded into its own context. We have a term for this and it is called &quot;Comprehension Debt&quot; [0] [1]. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08942 [1] https://medium.com/@addyosmani/comprehension-debt-the-hidden...</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2512.08942/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.HC