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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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The Four Inherent Properties of Complexity, Conformity, Changeability and Invisibility

The four inherent properties of this irreducible essence of modern software are complexity, conformity, changeability and invisibility. We've been poisoned by the out of the tarpet paper into thinking that essential complexity is unavoidable and irreducibly. The silver bullet isn't one that attacks just the accidental aspects, but it has to attack both the essential and the accidental if it's to give us a 10x improvement.

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