The essay defines decoherence as "the accumulation of locally valid but mutually incompatible or redundant models within a system", such that the cost of change is dominated by translating among those models. Its plumbing analogy is a…
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A practitioner essay argues that agent-written change compounds incompatible patterns, and that adding agents does not fix it if complexity grows with each change.
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