vboykis Revives Rich Hickey's 'Simple Made Easy': Compression Is an Art
vboykis · x · 2026-10-14
Engineer vboykis resurfaced Rich Hickey's classic InfoQ talk 'Simple Made Easy,' noting that after years in industry she's far more impressed by projects that make things smaller, cleaner, and more elegant rather than larger and more distributed — less code, fewer PRs, less text. "Good compression is an art," she quipped: "he warned us."
A timely bit of engineering culture: as AI agents churn out ever more code, the old sermon on simplicity over complexity feels newly relevant.
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