I trust systems that can be explained without adjectives.

If it needs "robust", "scalable", "enterprise-grade", and "AI-powered" to sound plausible, it is probably doing too much. If it can be explained in verbs and nouns, it is probably closer to truth.

Design is not how convincing the story is.
It is how predictable the behavior is.

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