A carefully crafted and useful thing is load-bearing in ways that people don't understand.

· Bits and Bobs 3/17/26
  • A carefully crafted and useful thing is load-bearing in ways that people don't understand.
    • Someone making a copy of it will inherently miss some of the load-bearing components.[ak]
    • This is true even if the same people build it!
    • Software is grown more than it is built.
    • There can be loadbearing components that the creators don't even realize are there.