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🧠 Cognitive load is what matters
22 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 13 stories, 9 comments · first 2023-05-22 · latest 2026-07-10
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…my AGENTS.md is: You are an engineer who writes code for *human brains, not machines*. Taken from: https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load/blob/main/READM...
comment by phaser · 2026-07-10 · in Write code like a human will maintain it -
…code and documenting well. Most of this is effortless thanks to an AGENTS.md based on this: https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load/blob/main/READM... but i have a good sense of catching when things are getting weird and i steer back.…
comment by phaser · 2026-04-17 · in I’m spending months coding the old way -
- https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load - https://github.com/binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability - https://github.com/git-tips/tips - https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer - https://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Han…
comment by coronapl · 2026-01-15 · in Ask HN: What is your favourite GitHub Repo? -
It is mentioned/quoted in Deep Modules section: https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load?tab=readme-ov-f... Maybe I should make it more visible.
comment by zakirullin · 2025-08-30 · in Cognitive load is what matters -
There's a chapter about mental models: https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load?tab=readme-ov-f...
comment by zakirullin · 2025-08-30 · in Cognitive load is what matters -
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Cognitive load is what mattersstory by nromiun · 2025-08-30 · 522 comments
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Cognitive Load is what mattersstory by kiyanwang · 2024-12-27 · 0 comments
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…the site has 3 posts. Yet, this post is a living document awaiting contributions (or so it claims), https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load
comment by adr1an · 2024-12-27 · in Cognitive load is what matters -
…for anything. I laid out my objections to the article last year when it first circulated: https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load/issues/22
comment by wcrichton · 2024-12-25 · in Cognitive load is what matters -
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Cognitive Load is what mattersstory by irrationaljared · 2024-10-09 · 3 comments
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Cognitive Load is what mattersstory by thunderbong · 2024-10-09 · 0 comments
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…complex to the small functionality it provides. Shallow modules don't hide as much complexity. https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load?#too-many-small... But I highly recommend picking up the book :) It is an enjoyable read.
comment by zakirullin · 2024-07-20 · in A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout (2023) -
"Code simplicity" is indeed too abstract. "Cognitive load", however, is more tangible thing to grasp. https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load
comment by zakirullin · 2024-02-26 · in Write Dumb Code (2018) -
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