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by cpeterso 5448 days ago
The brain might not have a "design", but its physical structure seems mostly hierarchical. Even "layer after layer of spaghetti code" has abstraction (layers), no matter how leaky.

A frightening analogy might be the Win32 API. So many applications rely on the bugs and side effects of the Win32 API's internal implementation that those behaviors become part of the implicit API contract that Microsoft must maintain.