Viberpsychosis Glossary
// The Actual Jargon

Comprehension Debt

// What it actually means

The growing gap between how much code a project contains and how much of it any human actually understands. It builds up when AI writes code faster than people can review it.

// The diagnosis

Technical debt's quieter cousin. The code works. Nobody knows why. The one who might have known was an agent, and it has since been compacted.

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