Technical Debt

The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise

Maevyn introduces decoherence: the build-up of locally valid but mutually incompatible or redundant models inside a system, so that the cost of change is dominated by translating between them. The essay argues it compounds with a system's rate of change, that AI is producing it faster than ever, and that this rules out a runaway intelligence explosion.

Essay · Software Engineering · Technical Debt · AI · Complexity