Classic engineering paradigms are being stress tested.

Classic engineering paradigms are being stress tested.

Some will crumble.
Some will evolve.
A few will remain unshaken.

Take Gall's Law:
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

For decades, that felt almost self-evident.
But does it still hold?

Today, increasingly complex software can be generated in days, not years. Entire systems appear to emerge all at once.

Is Gall's Law invalid?
Or are those systems standing on millions of simpler systems that already worked? Languages. Libraries. Frameworks. Models. Infrastructure.

Gall is just one of many paradigms on the chopping block.

The next decade will reward the people who can find timeless principles among a ocean of temporary assumptions.

We need to keep asking four questions:
- What's been true that is now different?
- What's been true that will stay the same?
- What wasn't true that is now possible?
- What wasn't true that still isn't?