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Lars Faye's Agentic Coding Is a Trap — published Sunday, May 3, picked up on Hacker News at 398 points and 316 comments — is the best single compendium of the cognitive-debt evidence base anyone has put together in 2026. It catalogues the studies. It names the trade-offs. It lands on a personal-discipline conclusion. The receipts are now collected; the careful reader will have spent the weekend nodding through them. Buried in Faye's second paragraph, almost in passing, is the line that does t...