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It’s a general principle. Complexity breeds complexity via a multitude of mechanisms thus growing exponentially. As complexity is also related to cost, this means, that there are two limits approached exponentially: financial (we can no longer afford complexity) and cognitive (ee can no longer understand). In an ideal world, financial barrier arrives first, as it is necessary to understand something to make it constructively simple. If it doesn’t, the only solution is destructive simplification by simply breaking the system into pieces forcefully. This is what Musk did to X and tried to do to the US Government.

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I understand pretty well why this didn't work with the government. I'm curious how this worked out at X. I have the impression that not only did he break the system into pieces, he also just threw out many of the pieces. That's a pretty effective form of simplification, but it runs the risk of being too simple in that the system loses some critical functions.

"Simplify my code."

"Ok, all code deleted, what next?"