Reading up on John Ousterhout

A meta-analysis argues that Zach Tellman's definition of software complexity as the sum of future explanations is the most useful and practical among three discussed.

Conflating historical facts, contracts, time, and policy in a 'held' flag blocked migrations; the fix separates values from time to avoid stale holds.

Nate Meyvis argues that cognitive debt in AI-generated codebases is not inherently worse than in traditional codebases, and AI can help mitigate it.