Fighting Cognitive Debt in Agentic Code with Video Overviews(enigmeta.com)

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Fighting Cognitive Debt in Agentic Code with Video Overviews

https://enigmeta.com/posts/2026-02-19-video-overviews-for-agentic-code/

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fdb5 mesi fa

This came from a piece by Margaret-Anne Storey on "cognitive debt", picked up by @simonw, and which I personally also encountered. While building a synth engine from scratch, I kinda lost the plot. Then I let Claude document each "phase", and from that I generated Remotion videos. It worked quite well, and I learned a lot, much more than I would have from just reading the source code!

Code for synth and Remotion setup is open source: https://github.com/fdb/vamos