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I'd say cognitive friction is even more than just a regularizer: it's an incentive to find the right interface abstractions, and in turn goo…
I'd say cognitive friction is even more than just a regularizer: it's an incentive to find the right interface abstractions, and in turn good abstractions are what enables compounding over time. Piles
I'd say cognitive friction is even more than just a regularizer: it's an incentive to find the right interface abstractions, and in turn good abstractions are what enables compounding over time. Piles of spaghetti don't compound, they collapse under their own weight after a while
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Source: Francois Chollet (X) | 2026-04-19