Jason Gorman on Nostr: The relationship between code complexity and reliability is pretty straightforward. ...
The relationship between code complexity and reliability is pretty straightforward.
Think in terms of "ways it can be right" and "ways it can be wrong", and the ratio between them.
Each additional element increases the number of ways code can be wrong, and "Rightness" becomes increasingly improbable the more complex the code gets.
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