Anthropic engineer Addy Osmani warns of 'cognitive surrender' when you can't explain the agent's answer
Addy Osmani, an engineer on Anthropic's Claude Code team, warned that anyone who cannot explain an answer even with the help of their agent has given up ownership of it. Reports say passing tests can mask the fact that a team does not understand the software the AI wrote.
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