Two Houses

Imagine a family of four in a house with one room, where every possession is simply on the floor. Chaos.

Now imagine the same family in a four-bedroom house with a dining room, a living room, a laundry, a pantry, and a shed outside. Within each room there are cupboards and shelves, and these cupboards and shelves have labels. Within the cupboards and shelves there are boxes, and these boxes have labels. Order.

When you first learn to code — especially without instruction — you tend to build the first house.

As a software engineer, your job is to build the second house.

At present, AI tries to build the second house, but at scale it fails. The construction of a large house requires a fractal order to scale — boxes in boxes. And these boxes should be the ones that humans (and now AI) naturally “reach” for.

This allows newcomers, humans and AI alike, to enter the house, then choose a room, then choose a cupboard, then choose a box; and if your software architecture is good, they will have chosen the right box on the first try.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​