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> Unfortunately that would require making it less complex, which is about as likely as a broken egg spontaneously reassembling. This is such a great analogy on

> Unfortunately that would require making it less complex, which is about as likely as a broken egg spontaneously reassembling. This is such a great analogy on so many levels. The natural tendency of software projects to exhibit the effects of entropy.

digi_owl 10y ago
Best i can tell, its because humans prefer adding stuff to maintaining stuff. So things end up sprawling over time...
- agumonkey 10y ago
  I was thinking about this not long ago. People also prefer buying 'more' rather than 'less but less tech debt, and more solid old'. Nature at work.