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If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse. Software faces no such constraint. The code can always get worse. There can always be a new layer of indirection or a reduction in performance.
— Zach Kehs , There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
Recent articles
The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting - 4th September 2026
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis - 4th September 2026
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics - 2nd September 2026
This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 6th September 2026 .