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Human cognitive friction has long been acting as a regularizer for a lot of digital infrastructure. It made software APIs less terrible and …
Human cognitive friction has long been acting as a regularizer for a lot of digital infrastructure. It made software APIs less terrible and codebases less complex. Now LLM disintermediation is causing
Human cognitive friction has long been acting as a regularizer for a lot of digital infrastructure. It made software APIs less terrible and codebases less complex. Now LLM disintermediation is causing this effect to fade, which in turn will cause runaway software complexity.
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Source: Francois Chollet (X) | 2026-04-19