ConceptSoftware Entropy
Software Entropy
A software engineering concept, originating from The Pragmatic Programmer, describing the natural tendency of software systems to drift toward disorder and increased complexity over time. It characterizes the gradual degradation of a codebase when overall design attention is lacking.
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Oct 12
LLMs are accelerators of software entropy, because they have no cognitive constraint on complexity and choose the shortest statistical path that satisfies the local prompt, often introducing tight coupling or arbitrary conditional branches.
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