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The hidden cost of complexity

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Jon Arbell De Ocampo

Apr 11, 2026 · 4 min read

Complexity compounds. A clever shortcut today becomes the thing a new engineer spends a week understanding next year.

Boring is a feature

We reach for well-understood tools first. Novelty is reserved for the problems that are actually novel.

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