October 23, 2017

Take for granted for a minute that professional software development is a complex problem, in the sense of complexity theory. I have in recent months been fretting, then, at how to optimize for s/d given that fundamental complexity. Problems that are merely intricate have the property that when you strike them sharply they break into smaller pieces. You get problem-shards, smaller ones, and hence more soluble, less intricate. Rinse, lather, repeat, and they eventually get "’easy". Complex problems don’t have […]