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Articles tagged with #computer-science

The Goddess of Plenty Smiles at the Summit
16 Theorems, 2 Refutations, and the Structure of Software Design
Sep 6, 202623 min read37
The SAGA Comparison Theorem Preprint Is Out: Two Rulers, One Reading
TL;DR We have published a paper on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21603761, CC BY 4.0) that formalizes the "locally correct, globally broken" phenomenon of software architecture as mathematics, proves i
Jul 27, 202612 min read29
Forecast Cone: A Grand Theorem for Computable Software Evolution
TL;DR This article starts from the ForecastCone in Software Field Theory (SFT), then reads modularity, technical debt, review, governance, and learning as parts of one research program. The goal is si
May 22, 202614 min read96
Software Architecture as a Field: Asking Better Questions About Software Evolution
AI coding agents are making us faster at writing code. That is a major shift. But writing code faster is not the same as helping software evolve in a healthy way. The faster we stack up changes, the m
May 13, 202620 min read202
Attractor Engineering: Seeing Software Development as Field Dynamics
TL;DR A codebase can be read as a field that attracts future changes, and a pull request can be read as a force applied to that field. A good field makes good changes easier to make. A bad field rep
May 9, 202635 min read54