Peter Principle Programming

The PeterPrinciple,

"In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."

The equivalent principle in programming might be this: complexity increases rapidly until it reaches a level just beyond that with which programmers can comfortably cope. At this point, complexity and our abilities to contain it reach an uneasy equilibrium. The blitzkrieg bogs down into a siege. We built TheMostComplexWhichCanBeMadeToWork.


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