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title: Quoting Zach Kehs
link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/6/zach-kehs/
source: simonwillison-net
published: 2026-09-06T08:42:49Z
updated: 2026-09-06T08:42:49Z
first_seen: 2026-09-08T10:17:10.166315Z
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- technical-debt
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'
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> 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](https://zachkehs.com/blog/theres_no_limit_to_how_bad_code_can_get/#9-ref), There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get