[RhysU]

I have heard it said[1] that the complexity of our modern government is a consequence of the computerization of its bureaucratic functions. In effect, the complexity of implementing crazily esoteric laws used to regularize how crazily esoteric the laws could be. No more.

If time-traveling debugging becomes table stakes then we will build systems that can only be debugged by time traveling debuggers. Specifically, because we'll lose our healthy fear of complexity beyond what logging and a normal debugger can manage. And that fear (more often called "experience") is about the only thing that causes the greybeards to push the non-greybeards for simple, elegant solutions.

I think we collectively go further, faster without the magic because magic makes us willing to discount complexity.

But I am something of a Luddite.

[1] By my father, a now retired Social Security Administration manager, roughly 1980 to 2015.