Simple made easy

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, presents at the Strange Loop conference in 2011.

In the constant fight against complexity (either that we wrote, someone else wrote, or that some agentic LLM wrote...)

Watch the full talk on YouTube, because it's really good.

"On throwaway or trivial projects, nothing much matters", but the complexity will eventually kill you.

Additionally, this talk is the earliest source that I've seen where incidental complexity is defined.