Chris Simon at DDD Europe 2025

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The talk maps how combining a new croft reinforcing feedback loop with low impact bugs and high impact bugs feedback loops creates a system where the reinforcing dynamics dominate, despite balancing feedback loops that temporarily halt change by forcing time into sensemaking and bug fixing. The claim is that over time the system converges to high confusion, lots of time spent trying to make sense, many bugs and very little new value produced, illustrated as a long term systemic effect rather than a one-off problem.

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