THE INTENT DEBT

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

Intent debt comprises the artifacts that were never written down: the goals, constraints, and rationale for why a system is the way it is. This can sometimes exist within team documents or discussions, but it is likely unorganized and incomplete. Agentic engineering only makes intent debt more expensive, as intent can only come from humans. Models don't know why decisions were made, and this changes the economics of not writing things down.