Simon Willison · · 1 min read

Quoting Zach Kehs

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If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse. Software faces no such constraint. The code can always get worse. There can always be a new layer of indirection or a reduction in performance.

Zach Kehs, There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

Tags: technical-debt

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