Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The industry is hyperfocused on building faster. But faster isn’t always better, and one reason why is the cognitive debt that accumulates alongside AI-accelerated development. In this clip from O'Reilly's Infrastructure & Ops Superstream, host Sam Newman and DORA’s Nathen Harvey think through the ramifications of “losing the connectedness with other people” and in the process also losing the “joined-up picture” of our architecture. As they point out, not all the costs of cognitive debt show up immediately. A bad architectural decision made today might not reveal itself for a year or more. Real value isn’t measured by speed but by effectively running software over time that delivers actual benefits to users.
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The industry is hyperfocused on building faster. But faster isn’t always better, and one reason why is the cognitive debt that accumulates alongside AI-accelerated development. In this clip from O'Reilly's Infrastructure & Ops Superstream, host Sam Newman and DORA’s Nathen Harvey think through the ramifications of “losing the connectedness with other people” and in the process also losing the “joined-up picture” of our architecture. As they point out, not all the costs of cognitive debt show up immediately. A bad architectural decision made today might not reveal itself for a year or more. Real value isn’t measured by speed but by effectively running software over time that delivers actual benefits to users.
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