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Frederick Brooks described the 'second-system effect' in The Mythical Man-Month, referring to the tendency of engineers building their second system to cram in all the features they wanted to implement, causing complexity to spiral out of control.
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How AI Is Rewriting the Economics of Software Rewrites: Costs Plummet, But Risks Remain
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