To me, the cognitive debt incurred by Agentic AI described here is not so different from the cognitive debt incurred by code written by someone else. Even when you are the reviewer of your colleague’s code, you can’t just grok everything as if the code were written by you. What more to say if you are not even the reviewer.

And that’s okay! Much like it’s okay to let other people write the code.

What is important is that the code written by Agentic AI is covered by automated tests adequately, and that you verify that the architectural plan is solid. But then this is also what you do with your colleagues’/juniors’ code.