New blog post: "The collapse of complex software" https://nolanlawson.com/2022/06/09/the-collapse-of-complex-software/
Some thoughts on how complexity creeps in to software, and whether we can learn anything from anthropology about it.
@nolan Also, tangentially related to this, I am a very big fan of using "conceptual compression" to deal with complexity :). It's somewhat of a cheat because it does create complexity, but it's encapsulated within simple concepts which is nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKyv-IGvgGE&t=1047s