Addy Osmani blog
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- Addy Osmani blog
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- Engineering manager at Google Chrome's developer-tools team; long-form essays on web performance, software craft, and the cognitive economics of AI-assisted coding
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- blog, person, ai-coding
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- 2026-05-20
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- 2026-05-20
Addy Osmani writes at addyosmani.com on web performance, JavaScript tooling, and increasingly on the human-side economics of AI-assisted development. Engineering manager at Google working on Chrome and the web platform. Author of Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, Image Optimization, and the recent Leading Effective Engineering Teams. Long active in the open-source frontend world (Yeoman, TodoMVC).
The recent essay arc on AI coding is mostly about posture — what changes inside the engineer who uses these tools every day, not whether the tools are good. Three pieces form a loose trilogy:
- "Cognitive Surrender" — the moment an AI reviewer's verdict quietly replaces your own
- "Comprehension Debt" — the gap between code shipped and code understood
- "Don't Outsource Learning" — the solo-engineer version of the same loop, with three studies converging on the same finding
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- dont-outsource-learning — May 2026: default AI coding loops degrade the skill engineers are paid for; Anthropic + MIT + CHI 2026 studies; posture-shift prescription
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