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Re:Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing by SoKamil on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @02:50PM (#46049907)
> It very much is constrained by real world limitations. It runs on the hardware that itself is limited

And yet we scale the shit out of it, shifting limitations further and further. On that scale different problems emerge and there is no single person or even single team that could comprehend this complexity in isolation. You start to encounter problems that have never been solved before.

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Re:Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing by jemmyw on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @11:00PM (#46065452)
You can scale it within the bounds of the physical hardware it is running on. And as you scale it you start running into all the problems brought about by distributed systems, problems which very much stem from physics.
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