The inevitability of increasing complexity

Viktor Farcic: Does that mean increasing complexity is unavoidable?

Júlia Biró: Exactly, just evolution.

Viktor Farcic: I like that one.

Júlia Biró: Here's the thing. Once you can do something, you put two of those together, and then by the time you have put five together, you feel like, "Oh, this is terrible," and you automate it. Then by the 22nd time you realize that you want that particular instance to be slightly different and that you want to put an if there. You basically want to control it with variables in a full programming language and then, bam! You have created another layer of complexity.

But once you have a programming language with it, there's nothing that's going to stop you from having 5,000, instead of 50. It's easy to say, "Here I have another layer." After that, all you need to do is teach everyone about that and put that into the code, and from there...