The Side Effect You Can't See: Perceptual Parochialism in Software Engineering

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This article is a companion to Perceptual Parochialism: The Scale We Can’t See . That piece explores why humans, by default, struggle to reason about phenomena at scales beyond direct experience. This article applies the same idea to a specific domain where it causes enormous, measurable damage: software systems with uncontrolled side effects. The Pebble and the Mountain Range # A mutable…

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