maevyn.codes is a personal site publishing essays and addenda on software engineering and systems thinking. Its centerpiece, ‘The Decoherence Trap,’ argues that the worst form of tech debt is the accumulation of locally valid but mutually incompatible models within a system, which makes change costly as teams translate between models and guard against side effects.
The essay’s core insight is that decoherence grows with a system’s rate of change and compounds exponentially the more decoherent a system already is. While this is not a new phenomenon, the author contends that widespread AI use now produces decoherence at an unsustainable rate, drowning signal in noise.
The site is aimed at developers, architects, and engineering leaders interested in conceptual frameworks for codebase health and the real costs of rapid change. Readers who enjoy reflective, systems-level writing will find the essays valuable.
Use it as a thinking tool rather than a tutorial: read the essay to reframe how you evaluate tech debt, then consider how model unification and doing more with less apply to your own projects. A concise, idea-dense read for engineers concerned with long-term maintainability.
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