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There’s a strange pressure in tech to reach for architecture, frameworks, and infrastructure even when the problem might only need something scrappy. Sometimes the ugly solution survives longer simply because it’s closer to the actual problem.
Encryption and higher-level platforms are great for security and productivity, but the debugging surface keeps shrinking. Eventually when something breaks, nobody actually has the layer-by-layer visibility needed to reason about it.
In most real systems no single engineer actually understands the full territory either. People rely on partial mental models, docs, logs, and tribal knowledge. In that sense, LLMs operating on maps might not be that different from how teams already work.