The Signs Are There, But We’re Still Lost: How projects can have low intent debt but high cognitive debt

In my last post, I described how a small agile or startup project can have low cognitive debt (where everyone has a good understanding about the goals of the project and what we are doing) but high intent debt (nothing is documented for future team members or agents to refer to). I used the analogy of a missing stop sign to describe this situation: the locals know what to do, but human or agentic…