The engineer's fallacy: thinking you can outsmart complex systems with simple "improvements". Even worse, not habting respect for complex systems! For some rea

The engineer's fallacy: thinking you can outsmart complex systems with simple "improvements". Even worse, not habting respect for complex systems! For some reason this type of thinking and "just fix" attitude seems to be particularly prevalent among the US, in particular Silicon Valley types. ("Too much sugar is bad, so replacing it with a sweetner solves the problem"). I'm sure to have stepped on a few toes, so let's hear who says "ouch".