Post #3087651
2026-04-03 00:19 UTC
3. All things being equal, smaller codebases are less complex and easier to interpret than accreted code: accreted code "lithifies" (cf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nJR7PNgI4) over time.
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@chrisjrn@social.coop 2026-04-03 00:22
4. Things are never equal. 4a. LLMs are predisposed to being better at accretion than modification due to inherent limits on static analysis (see Rice's theorem).