Design Principles, and Where They Collide

A linked reference to the hard-to-define rules of software design: for each principle, the primary source, the claim, the strength of the evidence and the principles it fights with, plus a section on the collisions, a timeline, published standards and a look at coding agents.

Last updated 2026-10-06 04:35 UTC · made on claude.ai

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