Cognitive Offload: An Engineering Manifesto About LLMs, People, Company Reorganisation, and Linguistics
Documenting my experience with Obsidian + OpenCode through a knowledge management lens.
Society's attention is collapsing while knowledge production accelerates. Organisations burn cognitive hours on toil — meetings, context switching, knowledge retention. LLMs are not chatbots or oracles; they are linguistic processors, and linguistics is the science that partly explains them. When the language gap between teams starts to dissolve, value shifts from knowledge scattered across people, meetings, and handovers, toward systems that centralise context between business, people, and code — making the team less dependent on intermediaries for decision-making. This manifesto proposes Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) with LLMs as the organisational layer that closes the gap. Not prophecy — trajectory.