Systems don’t break because they’re complex—they break because everything depends on everything else in ways no one intended.
Coupling as the real villain
- why complexity alone isn’t failure
Implicit dependencies
- hidden contracts, side effects
When coupling becomes cultural
- knowledge silos, team bottlenecks
Decoupling as survival strategy
- queues, APIs, domain boundaries
Measuring “coupling pain”
- practical heuristics
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