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How much of your AI-written code do you actually understand? (2-min survey)

I'm a student doing a small research project on how people deal with code their AI tools write. Something I keep seeing around me: Claude Code or Cursor writes a function, it works, it ships, and a week later nobody can

Anirudh
Anirudh

Posted on Nov 12

How much of your AI-written code do you actually understand? (2-min survey)

I'm a student doing a small research project on how people deal with code their AI tools write.

Something I keep seeing around me: Claude Code or Cursor writes a function, it works, it ships, and a week later nobody can explain it. Some people call this "comprehension debt."

I'm trying to figure out if that's a real problem for most people or not. Also curious what everyone does while the agent is running.

If you use AI coding tools, 2 minutes would help a lot: https://forms.gle/h32W8AyLHaSaFF8u5

No signup, nothing to buy. I'll post a summary here once enough people respond. Happy to just discuss in the comments too.

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