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Past a certain scale, complexity is mostly unavoidable. Accidental complexity is compressable, but essential complexity is not. At some point, you cannot compr
by wcfrobert 1y ago
Past a certain scale, complexity is mostly unavoidable.
Accidental complexity is compressable, but essential complexity is not. At some point, you cannot compress further without losing nuance.
In compiler design, there's a concept called the waterbed theory of complexity which states that you can try to abstract complexity away, but it'll just show up elsewhere.