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Dec 12, 2025 · Industry Insights

Why Your Product Always Has Bugs: Software Is a Low‑Dimensional Projection

The article argues that bugs are inevitable because software compresses the high‑dimensional, dynamic reality into a static, low‑dimensional codebase, causing loss of information and structural mismatches that surface as errors, and suggests future engineering must embrace self‑describing, self‑healing, and evolving architectures.