RubyConf 2023 - How Programs Learn, and What Happens After They're Built by Phil Crissman

In 1994, Stewart Brand published a book called "How Buildings Learn, and What Happens After They're Built". As well as a fascinating account of architecture and the history of various buildings and building styles, some ideas from this book were inspirational to the famous "Big Ball of Mud" paper, by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder. Can we learn anything about building software systems from the observations in Brand's book and the Big Ball of Mud paper? Spoiler alert: yes, I think so! Let's talk about them.