The Shape of the System

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Structure over vigilance: twenty-five tenets for engineering around the limits of human and machine cognition, building correctness into the shape of the system.

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Engineering for Bounded Cognition

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The mind that builds software is far smaller than the software it builds, and almost everything good in engineering is a way of living with that gap.