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Notes on the understanding problem: sharing agent-built work, review culture, and making comprehension as cheap as generation.

• August 24, 2026The real work is collective understandingPeter Naur argued in 1985 that a program is a theory held by the people who built it. Forty years on, agents write the code and the theory quietly stops forming, not in one head but between them.
• August 24, 2026Agents got faster at writing code. Nobody got faster at reading it.Review is where 2026 backs up. What teams are reporting, why more agent output can make a team slower, and the case that comprehension is now the constraint.