Why technological complexity affects us all

So why should someone who doesn’t program care about this? Because we live surrounded by systems that decide how we work, shop, travel, learn, and communicate. When those systems accumulate features without discernment, the price isn’t paid only by the people who develop them. We all pay it through slower applications, devices that run out of power sooner, personal data collected unnecessarily, less reliable services, and decisions that are impossible to understand. The next time an application adds a new feature, it may be worth asking a more interesting question than “What does it do?” Also: “What complication does it add? What does it replace? Who benefits, and who will have to maintain it?” Deleting a thousand lines isn’t a celebration of emptiness. It’s a defense of the space needed for what matters to work. Unix left us with an idea that remains surprisingly relevant: mature technology isn’t recognized by everything it is capable of adding, but by the clarity with which it decides what it can leave out.

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