Jason Gorman on Nostr: If you want to understand how a tiny change to one line of code can end up requiring ...

If you want to understand how a tiny change to one line of code can end up requiring us to rewrite large chunks of the system, I recommend reading Ubiquity: The Science Of History. Network effects, basically.

The more interconnected systems are - software, forests, banking - the higher the probability of small changes having system-wide knock-on impacts.

Tightly-coupled software systems will tend to have a much higher cost of change. It's basically physics.