I love the ‘complexity horizon’ of algorithms: If something can be made simple, then we’ll build more complex things until we can’t understand it. All algorithm

I love the ‘complexity horizon’ of algorithms: If something can be made simple, then we’ll build more complex things until we can’t understand it. All algorithm are always right above the maximum complexity that a single human can handle. Actually I believe it’s another surprising emergent effect of open-source: Linux’s or Postgres’ complexity horizon seem to have been managed, so that adding new stuff didn’t increase complexity, and it’s still possible to add new stuff THIRTY years later. As opposed to Excel.