{
  "id": 5941870,
  "title": "Quoting Zach Kehs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/06/quoting-zach-kehs",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-06T08:42:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/6/zach-kehs/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse. Software faces no such constraint. The code can always get worse. There can always be a new layer of indirection or a reduction in performance. — Zach Kehs , There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get Tags: technical-debt",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}